But what Housman understood, and you hear it in the symphonies of Nielsen too, was that the long, hot, silvan summers of stability of the 19th century were coming to a close, and that we were about to move into one of those terrifying periods of history when power changes.
Housmana. Ali ono što je Housman shvatio, se također čuje i u Nielsenovim simfonijama, a to je da će duga, topla, šumska ljeta stabilnosti 19. stoljeća polako završavati, te da će svijet ući u jedno od onih zastrašujućih razdoblja povijesti, a to je mijena moći.