And nobly wilt thou brook the chains The patriot Mother's weight of anxious cares! V. "Sweet HIGHLAND Girl! a very shower Of beauty was thy earthly dower," While Hope and Love around thee played, Of innocence survive to mitigate distress? VI. But from our course why turn, to tread *See address to a Highland Girl, p. 13. Nor take one ray of light from thee; The gift of immortality; And there shall bloom, with thee allied, The Votaress by Lugano's side, And that intrepid Nymph on Uri's steep descried! XXIX. THE COLUMN INTENDED BY BUONAPARTE FOR A TRIUMPHAL EDIFICE IN MILAN, NOW LYING BY THE WAY-SIDE IN THE SIMPLON PASS. AMBITION,-following down this far-famed slope In Fortune's rhetoric. Daughter of the Rock, XXX. STANZAS, COMPOSED IN THE SIMPLON PASS. VALLOMBROSA! I longed in thy shadiest wood When the stillness of evening hath deepened its roar; The beauty of Florence, the grandeur of Rome, Now, risen ere the light-footed Chamois retires From dew-sprinkled grass to heights guarded with snow, Toward the mists that hang over the land of my Sires, From the climate of myrtles contented I go. My thoughts become bright like yon edging of Pines On the steep's lofty verge: how it blackened the air! But, touched from behind by the Sun, it now shines With threads that seem part of his own silver hair. Though the toil of the way with dear Friends we divide, Though by the same zephyr our temples be fanned As we rest in the cool orange-bower side by side, A yearning survives which few hearts shall withstand: Each step hath its value while homeward we move; O joy when the girdle of England appears! XXXI. ECHO, UPON THE GEMMI. WHAT beast of chase hath broken from the cover? Stern GEMMI listens to as full a cry, As multitudinous a harmony Of sounds, as rang the heights of Latmos over,, When, from the soft couch of her sleeping Lover Upstarting, Cynthia skimmed the mountain-dew keen pursuit, and gave, where'er she flew Impetuous motion to the Stars above her. A solitary Wolf-dog, ranging on Through the bleak concave, wakes this wondrous chime Of aery voices locked in unison, So, from the body of one guilty deed, A thousand ghostly fears, and haunting thoughts, proceed! XXXII. PROCESSIONS. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in the Vale of Chamouny. To appease the Gods; or public thanks to yield; Or to solicit knowledge of events, Which in her breast Futurity concealed; And that the Past might have its true intents The Hebrews thus, carrying in joyful state |