Immensee by Theodor W. Storm Fiction Fantasy Fairy Tales Folk Tales Legends & Mythology

<p><strong>Off into the wood they went on and on; on through moist shady glens</strong> where everything was so peaceful except for the cry of the falcon flying unseen in the heavens far above their heads; on again through the thick brushwood so thick that Reinhard must needs go on ahead to make a track here snapping off a branch there bending aside a trailing vine. But ere long he heard Elisabeth behind him calling out his name. He turned round.</p><p>Reinhard! she called do wait for me! Reinhard!</p><p>Reinhard and Elizabeth have grown together -- as children in their make-believe home in the fields where they share fairy-stories; and as youths in the woodlands where they go in search of strawberries. Yet he is the older of the two and must go abroad to further his schooling: and with him he takes a book of poems he has been writing. They are songs of his youth and of love that he dares not show her.</p>