X. THE SOURCE OF THE DANUBE.* Nor, like his great compeers, indignantly Mounts on rapt wing, and with a moment's flight When the first Ship sailed for the Golden Fleece- To fix in heaven her shape distinct with stars. XI. NEAR THE OUTLET OF THE LAKE OF THUN. "DEM ANDENKEN MEINES FREUNDES ALOYS REDING MDCCCXVIII.” Aloys Reding, it will be remembered, was Captain-General of the AROUND a wild and woody hill A gravelled pathway treading, We reached a votive Stone that bears Well judged the Friend who placed it there And haply with a finer care The Sun regards it from the West; He sets, his sinking yields a type And oft he tempts the patriot Swiss Till all is dim, save this bright Stone XII. COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE CATHOLIC DOOMED as we are our native dust The altar, to deride the fane, Where simple Sufferers bend, in trust I love, where spreads the village lawn, Where'er we roam-along the brink AFTER-THOUGHT. OH Life! without thy chequered scene For faith 'mid ruined hopes, serene? Pain entered through a ghastly breach XIII. ON APPROACHING THE STAUB-BACH * Before this quarter of the Black Forest was inhabited, the source of the Danube might have suggested some of those sublime images which Armstrong has so finely de- ! scribed; at present, the contrast is most striking. The UTTERED by whom, or how inspired designed spring appears in a capacious stone basin in front of a Ducal For what strange service, does this concert reach palace, with a pleasure-ground opposite; then passing Our ears, and near the dwellings of mankind! under the pavement, takes the form of a little, clear, bright, 'Mid fields familiarized to human speech? black, vigorous rill, barely wide enough to tempt the No Mermaids warble to allay the wind agility of a child five years old to leap over it,—and enterDriving some vessel toward a dangerous beach — ing the garden, it joins, after a course of a few hundred More thrilling melodies; Witch answering Witch yards, a stream much more considerable than itself. The copiousness of the spring at Doneschingen must have proTo chaunt a love-spell, never intertwined cured for it the honour of being named the Source of the Notes shrill and wild with art more musical! Danube. Alas! that from the lips of abject Want THE FALL OF THE AAR-HANDEC. FROM the fierce aspect of this River throwing XV. SCENE ON THE LAKE OF BRIENTZ. "WHAT know we of the blest above But that they sing and that they love?" Yet, if they ever did inspire A mortal hymn, or shaped the choir, The rustic Maidens, every hand "The Staub-bach" is a narrow Stream, which, after a long course on the heights, comes to the sharp edge of a somewhat overhanging precipice, overleaps it with a bound, and, after a fall of 930 feet, forms again a rivulet. The vocal powers of these musical Beggars may seem to be exaggerated; but this wild and savage air was utterly unlike any sounds I had ever heard ; the notes reached me from a distance, and on what occasion they were sung I could not guess, only they seemed to belong, in some way or other, to the Waterfall-and reminded me of religious services chanted to Streams and Fountains in Pagan times. Mr. Southey has thus accurately characterised the peculiarity of this music: "While we were at the Waterfall, some half-score peasants, chiefly women and girls, Assembled just out of reach of the Spring, and set up,-surely the wildest chorus that ever was heard by human ears, — a song not of articulate sounds, but in which the voice was used as a mere instrument of music, more flexible than any which art could produce, -sweet, powerful, and thrilling beyond description" See Notes to " A Tale of Paraguay." XVI. ENGELBERG, THE HILL OF ANGELS.t FOR gentlest uses, oft-times Nature takes The work of Fancy from her willing hands; And such a beautiful creation makes As renders needless spells and magic wands, And for the boldest tale belief commands. When first mine eyes beheld that famous Hill The sacred ENGELBERG, celestial Bands, With intermingling motions soft and still, Hung round its top, on wings that changed their hues at will. Clouds do not name those Visitants; they were The very Angels whose authentic lays, My ears did listen, 't was enough to gaze; Roused into fury, murmur a soft tune How blest the souls who when their trials come But face like that sweet Boy their mortal doom XIX. THE TOWN OF SCHWYTZ. By antique Fancy trimmed — though lowly, bred Or jealous Nature ruling in her stead; XVIII. EFFUSION IN PRESENCE OF THE PAINTED TOWER OF TELL, AT ALTOR F. This Tower is said to stand upon the spot where grew the Linden Tree against which his Son was placed, when the Father's archery was put to proof under circumstances so famous in Swiss History. WHAT though the Italian pencil wrought not here, But when that calm Spectatress from on high Looks down the bright and solitary Moon, Who never gazes but to beautify; And snow-fed torrents, which the blaze of noon XX. ON HEARING THE "RANZ DES VACHES," ON THE TOP OF THE PASS OF ST. GOTHARD. I LISTEN but no faculty of mine *Nearly 500 years (says Ebel, speaking of the French Invasion.) had elapsed, when, for the first time, foreign soldiers were seen upon the frontiers of this small Canton, to impose upon : the laws of their governors. XXI. THE CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, SEEN FROM THE LAKE OF LUGANO. For victory shaped an open space, This Church was almost destroyed by lightning a few years ago, but the Altar and the Image of the Patron Saint were untouched. The Mount, upon the summit of which the Church is built, stands amid the intricacies of the Lake of Lugano; and is, from a hundred points of view, its principal ornament, rising to the height of 2000 feet, and, on one side, nearly perpendicular. The ascent is toilsome; but the traveller who performs it will be amply rewarded. Splendid fertility, rich woods and dazzling waters, seclusion and confinement of view contrasted with sealike extent of plain fading into the sky; and this again, in an opposite quarter, with an horizon of the loftiest and boldest Alps -unite in composing a prospect more diversified by magnificence, beauty, and sublimity, than perhaps any other point in Europe, of so inconsiderable an elevation, commands. XXII. FORT FUENTES. The Ruins of Fort Fuentes form the crest of a rocky emi nence that rises from the plain at the bead of the Lake of Como, commanding views up the Valteline, and toward the town of Chiavenna. The prospect in the latter direction is characterised by melancholy sublimity. We rejoiced at being favoured with a distinct view of those Alpine heights; not, as we had ex pected from the breaking up of the storm, steeped in celestial glory, yet in communion with clouds floating or stationaryscatterings from heaven. The Ruin is interesting both in mass and in detail. An Inscription, upon elaborately-sculptured marble lying on the ground, records that the Fort had been erected by Count Fuentes in the year 1600, during the reign of Philip the Third; and the Chapel, about twenty years after, by one of his Descendants. Marble pillars of gateways are yet standing, and a considerable part of the Chapel walls: a smooth green turf has taken place of the pavement, and we could see no trace of altar or image; but everywhere something to remind one of former splendour, and of devastation and tumult. In our ascent we had passed abundance of wild vines intermingled with bushes near the ruins were some ill-tended, but growing willingly and rock, turf, and fragments of the pile, are alike coverea or adorned with a variety of flowers, among which the rose-coloured pink was growing in great beauty. While descending, we discovered on the ground, apart from the path, and at a considerable distance from the ruined Chapel, a statue of a Child in pure white marble, uninjured by the explosion that had driven it so far down the hill. "How little," we exclaimed, "are these things valued here! Could we but transport this pretty Image to our own garden!"-Yet it seemed it would have been a pity any one should remove it from its couch in the wilderness, which may be its own for hundreds of years. Extract from Journal. : DREAD hour! when, upheaved by war's sulphurous blast, This sweet-visaged Cherub of Parian stone So far from the holy enclosure was cast, To couch in this thicket of brambles alone; To rest where the lizard may bask in the palm Of the beautiful countenance, twine round his neck. Where haply (kind service to Piety due!) When winter the grove of its mantle bereaves, Some Bird (like our own honoured Redbreast) may strew The desolate Slumberer with moss and with leaves. Arnold Winkelried, at the battle of Sempach, broke an Austrian phalanx in this manner. The event is one of the most famous in the annals of Swiss heroism; and pictures and prints of it are frequent throughout the country But thou, perhaps, (alert and free Though robbed of many a cherished dream, In the proud Isle of Liberty! Yet will the Wanderer sometimes pine With thoughts which no delights can chase, Recall a Sister's last embrace, His Mother's neck entwine; Nor shall forget the Maiden coy That would have loved the bright-haired Boy! 3. My Song, encouraged by the grace - Oh might he tempt that Goatherd-child As with a rapture caught from heaven, PART II. 1. WITH nodding plumes, and lightly drest On their Descendants shedding grace, |