XXVII. THE COLUMN INTENDED BY BUONAFARTE FOR A TRIUMPHAL EDIFICE IN MILAN, NOW LYING BY THE WAY-SIDE IN THE SIMPLON PASS. AMBITION, following down this far-famed slope In fortune's rhetoric. Daughter of the Rock, XXVIII. STANZAS, COMPOSED IN THE SIMPLON PASS. VALLOMBROSA! I longed in thy shadiest wood When the stillness of evening hath deepened its roar ; The beauty of Florence, the grandeur of Rome, Now, risen ere the light-footed Chamois retires From dew-sprinkled grass to heights guarded with snow, My thoughts become bright like yon edging of Pines, Though the burthen of toil with dear friends we divide, XXIX. ECHO, UPON THE GEMMI. WHAT Beast of Chase hath broken from the cover? Stern GEMMI listens to as full a cry, As multitudinous a harmony, As e'er did ring the heights of Latmos over, A solitary Wolf-dog, ranging on Through the bleak concave, wakes this wondrous chime Faint-far-off-near-deep-solemn and sublime! A thousand ghostly fears, and haunting thoughts, proceed XXX. PROCESSIONS. SUGGESTED ON A SABBATH MORNING IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNY. To appease the Gods; or public thanks to yield; Which in her breast futurity concealed; And that the past might have its true intents Mankind of yore were prompted to devise Graven on her cankered walls,- solemnities The Hebrews thus, carrying in joyful state Thick boughs of palm, and willows from the brook, They lodged in leafy tents and cabins low; Green boughs were borne, while for the blast that shook These shout hosannas,-these the startling trumpets blow! |