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And ancient woods of tempest-twisted oak, 



Majestic elm, proud beech and graceful birch 



Around whose glossy limbs the woodbine curls, 



Chesnut begemmed with pyramids of flowers, 



Magnolias of Colombia's forest land, 



Cedar of Lebanon's illustrious fame, 



And rugged fir extending to the sky 



Its leafless limbs that shared the lightning's wreck : 



Above the whole, in Alpine eminence, 



Fed with the mist of many passing clouds, 



And joying in the music of the storm 



That whistles from the South around their brows, 



Upsprings a crown of pines, romantic grouped, 



In solitary grandeur unsurpassed. 



Oh ! if repose on Nature's loveliness, 



If contemplation of her vernal youth 



Can wean thee from the world's bleak thoughts of care. 



And give thy spirit recreation's joy, 



Flee from the busy town and rest thee here. 



FRANZ. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORANDUM 

 BOOK OF A TRAVELLER. No. III. 



B B stands second in order in my 



memorandum book, he was strikingly distinguished 

 among the priests of the temple of Minerva for his love 

 of Chemistry and Liberty Liberty in the most exalted 

 sense of the word, and there are many bright in- 

 stances on record in which he has stood forward with 

 other Champions of freedom to assert the rights of man, 

 even when the prejudice of ages and the hand of power 

 were upraised in opposition. 



It would require more time than I can afford, 

 and likewise more ability than I possess to describe 

 the intellectual peculiarities of B - B . 

 (I use the word intellectual because, in my sketch of the 

 priests, I wish to avoid any thing which may bear the 

 smallest resemblance to personality, as generally under- 



