adini-nikolaevna: “Farewell, Princess Dagmar! Grandeur and splendour await Thee; Thy wedding w

adini-nikolaevna:

“Farewell, Princess Dagmar!
Grandeur and splendour await Thee;
Thy wedding wreath conceals an imperial crown.
Let God shine His sun on Thee and Thy new country; then, from the tears now evoked by parting,
a pearl will emerge!”

–Hans Christian Anderson on the departure of Princess Dagmar of Denmark for Russia, where she would marry the future Emperor Alexander III.