ON RE-VISITING THE SEA-SHORE, AFTER LONG ABSENCE, Under strong medical recommendation not to bathe. God be with thee, gladsome Ocean! Dissuading spake the mild Physician, But my soul fulfill'd her mission, And lo! I breathe untroubled breath! FASHION'S pining Sons and Daughters, Me a thousand hopes and pleasures, Dreams, (the Soul herself forsaking,) A blessed shadow of this Earth! O ye hopes, that stir within me, Health comes with you from above! God is with me, God is in me! I cannot die, if Life be Love. Yea, he deserves to find himself deceived, SCHILLER. HYMN Before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouny. Besides the Rivers, Arve and Arveiron, which have their sources in the foot of Mount Blanc, five conspicuous torrents rush down its sides; and within a few paces of the Glaciers, the Gentiana Major grows in immense numbers, with its "flowers of loveliest blue." HAST thou a charm to stay the Morning-Star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! |