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ing to positive neglect and even shocking humiliation, in spite, too, of 
his doubt of his own powers and of the best way to use them, he attained 
a higher goal than has been reached by any artist before or since. 
The man who created such things as the series of etchings entitled 
“The Two Church Spires,” illustrating in so strangely touching a 
manner Oehlenschlager’s ballad “Asger Ryg’s Departure and Re¬ 
turn,” or the drawings for Fabricius’s History of Denmark with 
their naive appeal to high and low, could in truth claim the right to 
be honored as the Greeks of old honored their best citizens. Only an 
artist who bore the name of Denmark enshrined in his heart could 
have done such work, and in fact we find in all Frolich’s correspond¬ 
ence and memoranda, recently edited by F. Hendriksen, an undertone 
of constant longing for his native land. At the same time, the letters 
addressed to him by his friends, men like Skovgaard, Lundbye, Kvhn, 
and Svend Grundtvig—the best representatives of their time—always 
express, either openly or between the lines, the hope that he would 
return and take root in Denmark. When, after years of sojourn in 
Germany, Italy, and France, interrupted only by short visits to the 
homeland, which ever drew and ever disappointed him, Frolich did 
return to his own country, he was received with open arms by the 
Gobelin from Frolich’s Drawing “King Rolf and His Men Going Through King Adil’s Fire” 
