VIII.

Here are the Alpine landscapes which create

A fund for contemplation.--to admire

Is a brief feeling of a trivial date;

But something worthier do such scenes inspire:

Here to be lonely is not desolate.

For much I view which I could most desire,

And, above all, a lake I can behold

Lovelier, not dearer, than our own of old.

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