...white mists, and capped with dark slate-coloured clouds. Like Tennyson's Ida, it was " Lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour...loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow ledges, midway down, Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook, falling...

...anybody may find beautiful illustrations of them, who will observe in a mountainous district how — " The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters slowly drawn."* or how " The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag." f recollecting that the phrase " Rauchen der...

...remarkable how the dominant stillness is here also made to invade everything. Nature is subdued by it : " The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn." CEnone herself is subject to its control : " round her neck Floated her hair, or seemed to float in...

...breaks in a patch of undergrowth half-way down, with a monotonous droning. A half-transparent mist-clond Puts forth an arm and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters slowly down ; and you wake to hear yourself saying, " It's just like a Chinese picture." Through the round...

...the shadow (if the vine branches Floated the glowing sunlight, as she moved." " The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn." * » ' • • * " Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and takes the morning." * * • * *...

...shadow of the vine branches, Floated the glowing sunlight as she moved." ***** " The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn." l_ * • * • • " Behind the valley topmost Gargarus Stands up and takes the morning." * * * •...

...— "There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier far Than all the valleys of Ionian Hills, The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters slowly down. On either hand The lawns and meadow ledges, mid-way down, Hang rich in flowers, and far below...

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...Behind the valley, topmost Gargarus Stands up and taketi the morning." '• The swimming vapor elopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn." " The ragged rims of thunder brooding low, With shadow-streaks of rain." " The dim red morn had died,...