Lord Bijruns WvltauscluMiun/. 115 



Wlicrc rose thc iiiountaiiis, thoic to Iiiin wcrc IVioiuIs; 

 Wlierc roU'd the ocean, thereon was liis home; 

 Wliere a blue sky, and glowiug clime, extends, 

 He liad the passion and the power to roani; 

 The désert, forest, cavcrn, breaker's foam, 

 Were unto him companionship; they spake 

 A mutiial language, clearer than the tome 

 Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake 

 For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. 



Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars. 

 Till he bad peopled them with beiugs briglit 

 As their own beanis; — 



Und ill III 46 sagt (1er Dichter: 



Truc Wisdom's wurld will be 

 Within its own création, or in thine. 

 Maternai Nature! for who teems like thec, 

 Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine? 

 Tliere Harold gazes on a work divine, 

 A blending of all boauties; — 



Wie hier schon die Einheit des NatürUchen und des Göttlichen hervorge- 

 hoben wird, so geschieht das noch viel deuthcher in III 62: 



Above me are the Alps, 

 The palaces of Nature, whose väst walls 

 Hâve pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps. 

 And throned Eternity in icy halls 

 Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls 

 The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! 

 All that expands the spirit, yet appals, 

 Gather around these summits, as to show 

 How Earth raay pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. 



Die beste und willkommenste Erläuterung zu dieser Stanze bietet eine 

 Äusserung Byrons bei Galt, a. a. O. S. 269; Byron sagte nämlich zu einem 

 Freunde von Galt in Genua: It is impossible, ai such a finie, when all the 

 West is golden and glowing behind them (the Alps), to contemplate such vast 

 masses of the Deity without being awed into rest, and forgetting such things 

 as man and his follies. Da dieser sehr interessante Ausspruch doch nur den 

 allgemeinen Standpunkt Byrons in Bezug auf seine Anschauung der Natur er- 

 läutert, muss er als durchaus authentisch angesehen werden, und mit um so 



