She did so, and he went on talking.
"Yes," he said, "that is the same old Rhine! How I have always loved it! But it will soon be all over with me; I shall not be long here to see it; I must go, and where?
But it's foolish to talk this way to you; you are too young to understand.

Your life is just beginning.

Are you not happy, and glad to think that you can stay here by this beautiful water for a long, long time to come ?" "I don't think of that when I look at the river," said Elsli.

"I think of the beautiful stream that flows through Paradise, and of the happiness of those who live there." "What do you say! How can you know anything about that ?" said the old man, looking at Elsli in amazement.
"I know what is said about it in a beautiful song; I have known it a long time.

One of my friends taught it to me, and she has gone there already.