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you view, With my paintings labial, Sitting up in awful row, White old men majestical, Mountains, in their gowns of snow, Ghosts of kings; as my two eyes, Looking over speckled skies, See them now. About their knees, Half in haze, there stands at ease A great army of green hills, Some bareheaded; and, behold, Small green mosses creep on some. Those be mighty forests old; And white avalanches come Through yon rents, where now distils Sheeny silver, pouring down To a tune of old renown, Cutting narrow pathways through Gentian belts of airy blue, To a zone where starwort blows, And long reaches of the rose. So, that haze all left behind, Down the chestnut forests wind, Past yon jagged spires, where yet Foot of man was never set; Past a castle yawning wide, With a great breach in its side, To a nest-like valley, where, Like a sparrow's egg in hue, Lie two lakes, and teach the true Color of the sea-maid's hair. What beside? The world beside! Drawing down and down, to greet Cottage clusters at our feet,-- Every scent of summer tide,-- Flowery pastures all aglow (Men and women mowing go Up and down them); also soft Floating of the film aloft, Fluttering of the leaves alow. Is this told? It is not told. Where's the danger? where's the cold Slippery danger up the steep? Where yon shadow fallen asleep? Chirping bird and tumbling spray, Light, work, laughter, scent of hay, Peace, and echo, where are they? Ah, they sleep, sleep all untold; Memory must their grace enfold Silently; and that high song Of the heart, it doth belong To the hearers. Not a whit, Though a chief musician heard, Could he make a tune for it. Though a bird of sweetest throat, And some lute full clear of note, Could have tried it,--O, the lute For that wondrous song were mute, And the bird would do her part, Falter, fail, and break her heart,-- Break her heart, and furl her wings, On those unexpressive strings. GLADYS AND HER ISLAND. (_On the Advantages of the Poetical Temperament_.) AN IMPERFECT FABLE WITH A DOUBTFUL MORAL. O happy Gladys! I rejoice with her, For Gladys saw the island. It was thus: They gave a day for pleasure in the school Where Gladys taught; and all the other girls Were taken out, to picnic in a wood. But it was said, "We think it were not well That little Gladys should acquire a taste For pleasure, going about, and needless change. It would not suit
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