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Sweden remained ever the veritable home to which Jenny Lind's heart turned with the affection which is given to no other land but that in which one first draws living breath. "One's heart is in one's own country," she once wrote to an old friend, in her later years, at the time of a visit of the Crown Prince of Sweden to London, "and mine, certainly, is Swedish to the very backbone of my body and soul."
It was, again, in Germany that she found the home of her artistic spirit. There the music in her kindled into its fullest life. There she breathed the air in which her art knew itself to be in its native dwelling-place.