DESULTORY STANZAS.
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Speaking of death alone, beneath a clime
Where life and rapture flow in plenitude sublime.
Where life and rapture flow in plenitude sublime.
IV.
Fancy hath flung for me an airy bridge
Across thy long deep Valley, furious Rhone!
Arch that here rests upon the granite ridge
Of Monte Rosa—there, on frailer stone
Of secondary birth—the Jung-frau's cone;
And, from that arch down-looking on the Vale,
The aspect I behold of every zone;
A sea of foliage tossing with the gale,
Blithe Autumn's purple crown, and Winter's icy mail!
Fancy hath flung for me an airy bridge
Across thy long deep Valley, furious Rhone!
Arch that here rests upon the granite ridge
Of Monte Rosa—there, on frailer stone
Of secondary birth—the Jung-frau's cone;
And, from that arch down-looking on the Vale,
The aspect I behold of every zone;
A sea of foliage tossing with the gale,
Blithe Autumn's purple crown, and Winter's icy mail!
- ↑ Les Fourches, the point at which the two chains of mountains part, that enclose the Valais, which terminates at St. Maurice.
