...patria. К. JEnone. There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm,...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars...

...' CEnone.' * There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm,...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars...

...slate-coloured clouds. Like Tennyson's Ida, it was " Lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow ledges, midway down, Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars...

...beautiful illustrations of them, who will observe in a mountainous district how — " The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters slowly drawn."* or how " The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag." f recollecting that the phrase " Rauchen der...

...Trojan's eye." " There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the vallevs of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm,...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars...

...embrace. CENONE. THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm,...creeps from pine to pine. And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars...

...follows it. " There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Thau all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roan...

...dominant stillness is here also made to invade everything. Nature is subdued by it : " The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm,...creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn." CEnone herself is subject to its control : " round her neck Floated her hair, or seemed to float in...

...vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart (he glen, Puts forth an arm and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars...

...breaks in a patch of undergrowth half-way down, with a monotonous droning. A half-transparent mist-clond Puts forth an arm and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters slowly down ; and you wake to hear yourself saying, " It's just like a Chinese picture." Through the round...