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Such is its character in many parts of Spain and Italy, 
where it is not cultivated for wine. It is then seen with 
the most picturesque effect, hanging its gay festoons to 
neighbouring trees, asking support, and giving beauty. 
“ And still from tree to tree the early vines 
Hang, garlanding the way in amber lines.” 
Southey has the following beautiful description of it: — 
(< These scenes profusely blest by Heaven they left. 
Where o’er the hazel and the quince, the vine 
Wide mantling spreads j and, clinging round the cork 
And ilex, hangs amid their dusky leaves 
Garlands of brightest hue, with reddening fruit 
Pendent, or clusters cool of glassy green.’* 
In those fair climes it also frequently adorns the rustic 
cottage, half hiding the casements beneath its mantling 
foliage. The cool, subdued tone of the light in its 
passage through this verdant medium is thus happily 
described: — 
-“ The light came in, 
“ Tinged as it enter’d with the vine-leaves thin.” 
In those parts, however, where it is cultivated for 
wine, all its native gracefulness is lost; and in France 
