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xvi when she returned, after scarcely two minutes absence, he was gone. He had only breathed one gentle sigh and awoke, not again on earth, but in heaven.

A statue bearing his name and called “The Asylum for Little children,” has been erected among the very old trees of the Rosenburg Castle gardens, not many steps from that of Christian IV., the most celebrated and popular of the Oldenburg line of kings. In the Danish National Songs, this king is extolled in a verse beginning—

Andersen’s statue was unveiled June 26th, 1880.