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Written after visiting a Scene in Switzerland. 
On vexerce A voir comme & sentir, ou plutot une vue exquise n'est qu'un sentiment délicat et fin. 
Rovsswat. 
Thou glorious scene! my wond’ring eye 
Hath gazed on thee at last, 
And by the proud reality 
Found Fancy’s dreams surpass’d. 
? Twas like the vision which of old 
To the saint seer was given, 
When the sky open’d, and behold ! 
A throne was set in heaven.* 
For there the everlasting Alps 
To the deep azure soar’d, 
And the sun on their snowy scalps 
A flood of glory pour’d. 
A present Deity, that sun 
Above them seem’d to blaze, 
Too strong and bright to gaze upon, 
Too glorious not to gaze. 
Below, the bright lake far and wide 
Spread like a crystal sea, 
Whose deep calm waters seem’d to glide, 
Eternity, to thee. 
Long, long, thou glorious scene, shalt thou 
Within my memory dwell, 
More vivid and heart-gladd’ning now 
Than when I mark’d thee well. 
More vivid and heart-gladd’ ning too, 
Than the wild dreams I nurs’d 
Of thee and thine, ere on my view, 
Thy world of wonders burst. 
For Fancy’s picture was a gleam, 
Weak, faint, and shadowy, 
And brief and passing as a dream 
The gaze I bent on thee. 
But now thou art a thing enshrin’d 
Within my inmost heart ; 
A part and portion of my mind, 
Which cannot thence depart. 
- Deep woes may whelm—long years may roll 
Their course o’er me in vain, 
But fix’d for ever in my soul 
Thy image shall remain. 
H. N. 
* After that I looked, and behold a door was opened in heaven, and the first voiee 
which I heard was as it were a trumpet talking with me, whieh said: come up hither, 
and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter—and immediately I was in the. 
spirit; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he 
that sat was to look upon like a jasper, and a sardine stone.—And before the throne 
there was a sea of glass like unto crystal.— Revelations, iv, 1. 3. 6. 
M.M. New Series —Vot. Il. No. 7.° E 
