No Mermaids warble-to allay the wind Driving some vessel toward a dangerous beach- The strain should flow-free Fancy to enthral, This bold, this bright, this sky-born, WATERFALL! 1 F XIII THE FALL OF THE AAR-HANDEC 1820 or 1821 ROM the fierce aspect of this River, throwing Back in astonishment and fear we shrink: But, gradually a calmer look bestowing, Flowers that peep forth from many a cleft and chink, They suck-from breath that, threatening to destroy, Beauty, and life, and motions as of joy: Nor doubt but HE to whom yon Pine-trees nod These humbler adorations will receive. 1820 or 1821 ΙΟ ΙΟ XIV MEMORIAL NEAR THE OUTLET OF THE LAKE OF THUN 'DEM ANDENKEN MEINES FREUNDES ALOYS REDING ALOYS REDING, it will be remembered, was Captain-General of the Swiss forces, which, with a courage and perseverance worthy of the cause, opposed the flagitious and too successful attempt of Buonaparte to subjugate their country. ROUND a wild and woody hill AR A gravelled pathway treading, 1 See Note. Well judged the Friend who placed it there And haply with a finer care Of dutiful affection. The Sun regards it from the West; He sets, his sinking yields a type And oft he tempts the patriot Swiss Till all is dim, save this bright Stone 1820 or 1821 ΤΟ XV COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE CATHOLIC D CANTONS OOMED as we are our native dust To wet with many a bitter shower, The altar, to deride the fane, Where simple Sufferers bend, in trust I love, where spreads the village lawn, Aloft, where pines their branches toss ! Where'er we roam-along the brink Be Charity!-to bid us think, And feel, if we would know. XVI Probably 1820 AFTER-THOUGHT H Life! without thy chequered scene Of right and wrong, of weal and woe, Success and failure, could a ground For faith, 'mid ruined hopes, serene? ΤΟ Pain entered through a ghastly breach- A portion of God's peace. Published 1837 IO XVII SCENE ON THE LAKE OF BRIENTZ HAT know we of the Blest above WH But that they sing and that they love?' Yet, if they ever did inspire A mortal hymn, or shaped the choir, (While all the ruffling winds are fled Each slumbering on some mountain's head), XVIII 1820 or 1821 ENGELBERG, THE HILL OF ANGELS1 FOR gentlest uses, oft-times Nature takes The work of Fancy from her willing hands; And such a beautiful creation makes As renders needless spells and magic wands, And for the boldest tale belief commands. When first mine eyes beheld that famous Hill With intermingling motions soft and still, ΤΟ Hung round its top, on wings that changed their hues at will. Clouds do not name those Visitants; they were 1 See Note. 10 Resplendent Apparition! if in vain My ears did listen, 'twas enough to gaze; XIX 1820 or 1821 OUR LADY OF THE SNOW M EEK Virgin Mother, more benign These crowded offerings as they nang To Thee, in this aërial cleft, ΙΟ Even for the Man who stops not here, Thy very name, O Lady! flings, O'er blooming fields and gushing springs, 1 Mount Righi. 30 Nor falls that intermingling shade With gleams of fresher, purer, light; But on!-a tempting downward way, Sufficient for the wise. 1820 or 1821 40 XX EFFUSION IN PRESENCE OF THE PAINTED TOWER of tell, AT ALTORF THIS Tower stands upon the spot where grew the Linden Tree against which his Son is said to have been placed, when the Father's archery was put to proof under circumstances so famous in Swiss Story. HAT though the Italian pencil wrought not here, WHAT Nor such fine skill as did the meed bestow On Marathonian valour, yet the tear Springs forth in presence of this gaudy show, And when that calm Spectatress from on high And snow-fed torrents, which the blaze of noon ΤΟ While on the warlike groups the mellowing lustre falls. How blest the souls who when their trials come But face like that sweet Boy their mortal doom, 20 |