...of the Glaciers, the Gentiana Major grows in immense numbers with its " flowers of loveliest blue." How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air...again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thv habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present...

...awful form ! Risest from forth the silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deepis the air and dark, substantial, black; An ebon mass...home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst...

...repeated the whole of Coleridge's beautiful hymn, beginning, — An ebon mass ; methinks thou pieroest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is...home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! • * * • Awake, my soul ! Not only passive praise Th?u owest ! Not alone these swelling tears,...

...he seems to pause On thy bold, awful head, O, sov'ran Blanc ! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful form, Risest from...home, thy crystal shrine. Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount, I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst...

...head, О sovran Blue! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful font* Risest from forth thy silent Sea of Pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dork, substantial, black. An ebon mass : methmks thou piercest it. As with a wedge ! But when I look...

...head, O sovran Blanc ! The Arve' and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly, while thou, dread mountain form, Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the sky and black : transpicuous deep An ebon mass ! methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when...

...O sovran Blanc ! <4"he Arve" and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly, while thou, dread mountain form, Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the sky and black : transpicuous deep An ebon mass ! methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when...

...at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form! Kisest from forth thy silent sea of pines 2 How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air...thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish...

...sovereign Blanc ! The Arve and Aveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful form ! 5 Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently...piercest it, As" with a wedge ! But when I look again, 10 It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent...

...lines, entitled the Alpine Hymn, this fact is alluded to in speaking of the " Sovran Blanc." Around thce and above Deep is the air, and dark, substantial,...mass. Methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge." Sometimes, apparently in consequence of the presence of a large quantity of water in the air, the blueness...