Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high,
His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky.
Highest of all, where white peaks glanced,
Where glist'ning streamers waved and danced,1
The wanderer's eye could barely view
The summer heaven's delicious blue;
So wondrous wild, the whole might seem
The scenery of a fairy dream.

XIII.

Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep
A narrow inlet, still and deep,
Affording scarce such breadth of brim,2
As served the wild duck's brood to swim.
Lost for a space, through thickets veering,
But broader when again appearing,

Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face
Could on the dark-blue mirror trace;
And farther as the hunter stray'd,
Still broader sweep its channels made.
The shaggy mounds no longer stood,
Emerging from entangled wood,3

1 MS.-His scathed trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high,

His rugged arms athwart the sky.

Highest of all, where white peaks glanced,

Where twinkling streamers waved and danced.

MS.-Affording scarce such breadth of flood,
As served to float the wild-duck's brood.

MS.-Emerging dry-shod from the wood.

A party odet, sill and deep,

Affording scarce such breadth of brim,"
As served the wild duck's brood to swim.
Lost for a space, through thickets veering,
Bet broader when again appearing,

Tall rocks and tufted knolls their face
Could on the dark-blue mirror trace;
And further ss the hunter stray'd,
Still broader sweep its channels made.
The shaggy mounds no longer sfood,
Emerging from entangled wood,"

trunk, and frequent flung. en the cliffs to meet on high,

arms athwart the sky.

all, where white peaks glanced tucing streamers waved and danced.

*Arce such breadth of flood,

Howt the wild-duck's brood.

dpind from the wood.

Within the dark ravines below,

Where twined the path in shadow hid,

Round many a rocky pyramid.

CANTO I., STANZA XI.