Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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THE RIVER RHINE.
Ah! loveliest scene!—the river wreathing windsIn mazy lines, with all the hues of Heaven
To its clear face of gleaming crystal given;
And all around in Beauty's charm it binds;
And where a spot less brightly fair it finds,
It wins the eye unto itself, and even
Shows more of loveliness as it had striven
To fill that void up with unnumbered kinds
Of various varying beauty:—glorious stream!
Thou makest glad the land thou passest through,
And like a flow of lightnings, with soft gleam
Still flashest on with brightness ever new;
Molten and liquid seems each sun-launch'd beam,
And earth reflects thro' thee, oh Stream! Heaven's ev'ry hue!
Nymegen.
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