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facts in verse.
If here and there the smoke upcurls,
It witnesses of some warm hearth,
Where nestle human loves and mirth,
Gray eld and sunny boys and girls.
It witnesses of some warm hearth,
Where nestle human loves and mirth,
Gray eld and sunny boys and girls.
Among those regions fair and dread,
A fallen trunk's majestic beam
Bridges a granite-walled stream,
An hundred feet above its bed.
A fallen trunk's majestic beam
Bridges a granite-walled stream,
An hundred feet above its bed.
So brief the space from ledge to ledge,
Only the mid-day sun can send
An arrow that its depth may rend—
And three steps on the sturdy bridge
Will span it clear, from end to end.
Only the mid-day sun can send
An arrow that its depth may rend—
And three steps on the sturdy bridge
Will span it clear, from end to end.
A maiden, on a summer even,
Stood there above the. torrent's flow,
And looked into the depth below,
And up the hollow sphere of heaven,
As if to measure some great wo.
Stood there above the. torrent's flow,
And looked into the depth below,
And up the hollow sphere of heaven,
As if to measure some great wo.
