" 'we've done the best we could,' said the lamp. 'we were good enough for our time, and have lighted up joy and sorrow; we have lived through many wonderful things; you might say we have been the night eyes of copenhagen. now let new lights take our place and take over our duti...
They had so many memories of quiet evenings and dark nights. I leaned up against a lamppost,” continued Godfather, “and there was a great spluttering in the oil and the wick. I could hear what the lamp said, and you shall hear it, too. “ 'We've done the best we could,' ...
But each one of us oil-lamps shines by what he has in himself and not by family relationship. We and our forefathers haveshone for Copenhagen from immeasurably ancient times, far, far back. But as this is now the last evening that we stand and shine in the second rank, so to speak,...