...Tune litus? tune litus? О voluptas! О qvies! Te fruor, natalis ora ; te saluto, 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, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly...

...attained perfection in this branch of his art than in the opening lines of the finished ' 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, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly...

...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 and creeps...loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand The lawns and meadow ledges, midway down, Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook, falling...

...beautiful illustrations of them, who will observe in a mountainous district how — " The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm and 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...

...in his place, Grow, live, die looking on his face, Die, dying clasp'd in his embrace. CENONE. THEBE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen. Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine. And loiters, slowly...

...round him in his place, Grow, live, die looking on his face, Die, dying clasp'd in his 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, and creeps from pine to pine. And loiters, slowly...

...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 and creeps...midway down Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roan The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea." If Alfred...

...all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm aud creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn....either hand The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down Haug rich in flowers, and far below them roars The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine In cataract...

...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, and 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...

...opening of "QEnone" is a good example, and is a fine prelude to love's delirium, which follows it. " 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 aud creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly...