206 EUROPEAN OBSERVATIONS;

And could the ceaseless vultures cease to pey
On self-condemning bosoms it were here,
Where Nature, nor too sombre, nor too gay,
Wild but not rude, awful yet not. austere,

Is to the mellow earth as Autumn to the year

Adieu to thee again I a vain adieul

There can be no farewell to scene like thine:
The mind is color’d by thy every hue;

And if reluctantly the eyes resign

Their cherish’d gaze upon thee, lovely Rhine I
’Tis with the thankful glance of parting praise;
More mighty spots may rise-more glaring shine,
But none unite in one attaching maze’

The brilliant, fair, and soft--the glories of old days.

The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom

Of coming ripeness, the white city’s sheen, .
The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom,

The forest’s growth, and Gothic walls between,

The wild rocks shaped as‘ they had turrets been
In mockery of man’s art; and these withal

A race of faces happy as the scene,

Whose fertile bounties here extend to all,

Still springing o’er thy banks, though Empires near them fall.
- Brnoir.

0 what power and beauty is there in those lines after
one has looked on this majestic river !

_ The night intercepts our view. The towns and villa-

ges of the Germans show their lights" and fires, and the

city of Mayence is in sight, on our right ; on our left is