DENMARK 



The Ttahlia TSorder^ Villa Hvidore 



DAHLIAS, a blaze of colour, on 

 one side of the old white Marble Well, 

 border this path leading down to the sea, 

 where gulls float over the blue water and 

 little white-sailed boats constantly pass and 

 repass ; farther out in the bay stately sailing 

 vessels, three-masted, with topsails, go by on 

 their way to Copenhagen. Like Christiania 

 and Stockholm, Copenhagen has a modern origin. 

 In the middle of the twelfth century the site was 

 occupied by a few fishermen's huts. In the 

 fifteenth century, having become the seat of the 

 government, and the capital of the kingdom, 

 surrounded by superb country, its position 

 favourable and its port excellent, it deve- 

 loped into a city, which, forming a centre 

 for intellectual thought and science, claims 



103 



