Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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ON THE VIEW FROM THE FORTRESS OF EHRENBREITSTEIN.
Proud View! that doth a stamp most glorious bear,All that is beautiful seems here to glow—
And make a Heavenly Scene of Earth below.
The River—oh! the River!—bright and fair,
It charms down Ehrenbreitstein's rugged air,
Besieging it with Beauty—it doth flow
Fearless and stately on! and the armed heights know
Its power and loveliness, and yield them there;
And so it wears their colours bright and clear
On its broad breast, as wrested from their might!—
And yet they fairer on its face appear
Traced out in glitterings of its watery light,
And scarcely frown those heights with hints of fear,
When mirrored thus by this they chain our sight.
Coblenz.
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