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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Angel of Death, by Johan Olof Wallin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Angel of Death Author: Johan Olof Wallin Release Date: December 20, 2006 [EBook #20135] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ANGEL OF DEATH *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE ANGEL OF DEATH. TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH BY A. W. ALMQVIST. SECOND EDITION. BLOOMFIELD, N. J. A. W. ALMQVIST, 165 FRANKLIN STREET. 1892. COPYRIGHT 1884. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, By A. W. Almqvist, New York, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. [Illustration] PREFACE. The original, of which this is a translation, is universally considered one of the very best among many beautiful poems written by the same illustrious author. The sublime didactic thoughts therein expressed, in language majestic and yet so simple, have won for it a constantly increasing popularity; and, during half a century, in a language so rich in literary beauties as the Swedish, have maintained it among the foremost of poetical productions of its kind. A correct English translation, therefore, is fraught with difficulties which but few persons can appreciate. It has been my aim to reproduce the poem in the original meter, with the rhymes in their proper places. Of course, care has been taken to preserve the sense, and even the _idioms_ of the original. How far I have been successful it is hardly for me to say. As it is, I give it to the reading public. The poem has undoubted merits in the original. If the merits are concealed in the translation, the fault is mine. A. W. ALMQVIST. BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR. Gathered from the files in the Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. Johan Olof Wallin, (pronounced Valleen), the author of the "ANGEL OF DEATH," was a native of Sweden, and was born in the parish of Stora Tuna, in the province of Dalarne (D
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