. Romantic Germany. e turned imperceptibly to liquid bronze,as light as the western heavens, lighter for the darkmasses of stone behind; while to the eastward, skyand water, both a deepening fawn, brought out thegay colors of the river traffic and the rainbow ofcostumes along the shore. Following an old custom, I dined at the Belve-dere, where an orchestra that might be the pride ofany city was playing Wagner to an audience whosevery forks were dumb during the music. The acous-tics were perfect; the hall was a gem in simple whiteand gold, and I shall not forget the pleasure of look-ing over th
. Romantic Germany. e turned imperceptibly to liquid bronze,as light as the western heavens, lighter for the darkmasses of stone behind; while to the eastward, skyand water, both a deepening fawn, brought out thegay colors of the river traffic and the rainbow ofcostumes along the shore. Following an old custom, I dined at the Belve-dere, where an orchestra that might be the pride ofany city was playing Wagner to an audience whosevery forks were dumb during the music. The acous-tics were perfect; the hall was a gem in simple whiteand gold, and I shall not forget the pleasure of look-ing over those happy, cultivated faces to where,through the colonnade, the evening haze was deepen-ing to an intense blue upon the river and the distantheights of Loschwitz. The moon was up over the Academy of Art as Ileft, and the benches under the trees of the terraceoutside were filled with people raptly enjoying, withthe faint music, the splashes of watery light reflectedfrom the lamps of the other shore, the murmur of 276. L CHURCH OH OUR )K()M TlUi BKUHl, TEKRACK DRESDEN the running river, and the soft siDiouette of Dres-dens noble bridges and towers. Watchmen were prowling about the porcelainacres by the Church of Our Lady, and it seemed as ifheaven had rained upon that favored spot a doubleportion of straw and sacking. The very booths ofthe market-place, drenched in moonlight, weretouched with mystery and a kind of grotesquebeauty. Dresden is essentially a city of pleasure—of fair,wide prospects, of hearty river life, of zest in natureand art. Even the public buildings cluster about theElbe, much as the huts of the first settlers clustered. A circle of Wendish herdsmens huts on the rightbank, a line of fisher-shanties on the left—these werethe unlikely beginnings of Dresden in the sixth cen-tury. But the settlement lay at the only point inthe river valley where a ford was practicable, tempt-ing the Germans to settle on the left bank betweenthe Wends and the swamps, ovSee
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