such a brilliant light
“And the matches gave such a brilliant light
that it was brighter than at noon-day:
never formerly had the grandmother
been so beautiful and so tall.
She took the little maiden, on her arm,
and both flew in brightness
and in joy so high, so very high,
and then above was neither cold,
nor hunger, nor anxiety…
they were with God.”
- Hans Christian Andersen
(The Little Match Girl)
“And the matches gave such a brilliant light
that it was brighter than at noon-day:
never formerly had the grandmother
been so beautiful and so tall.
She took the little maiden, on her arm,
and both flew in brightness
and in joy so high, so very high,
and then above was neither cold,
nor hunger, nor anxiety…
they were with God.”
- Hans Christian Andersen
(The Little Match Girl)
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