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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=455614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines inscribed to P. de Loutherbourg, Esq. R. A.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=455614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">WHERE on the bosom of the foamy RHINE,<br>In curling waves the rapid waters shine;<br>Where tow'ring cliffs in awful grandeur rise,<br>And midst the blue expanse embrace the skies;<br>The wond'ring eye beholds yon craggy height,<br>Ting'd with the glow of Evening's fading light:<br>Where the fierce cataract swelling o'er its bound,<br>Bursts from its source, and dares the depth profound.<br>On ev'ry side the headlong currents flow,<br>Scatt'ring their foam like silv'ry sands below:<br>From hill to hill responsive echoes sound,<br>Loud torrents roar, and dashing waves rebound:<br>Th' opposing rock, the azure stream divides<br>The white froth tumbling down its sparry sides;<br>From fall to fall the glitt'ring channels flow,<br>'Till lost, they mingle in the Lake below.<br>Tremendous spot ! amid thy views sublime,<br>The mental sight ethereal realms may climb,<br>With wonder rapt the mighty work explore,<br>Confess TH' ETERNAL'S pow'r ! and pensively adore! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=455614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">ALL VARYING NATURE! oft the outstretch'd eye <br>Marks o'er the WELKIN's brow the meteor fly: <br>Marks, where the COMET with impetuous force, <br>O'er Heaven's wide concave, skims its fiery course: <br>While on the ALPINE steep thin vapours rise, <br>Float on the blastor freeze amidst the skies: <br>Or half congeal'd in flaky fragments glide <br>Along the gelid mountain's breezy side; <br>Or mingling with the waste of yielding snow, <br>From the vast height in various currents flow. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=455614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Now pale-ey'd MORNING, at thy soft command, <br>O'er the rich landscape spreads her dewy hand: <br>Swift o'er the plain the lucid rivers fly, <br>Imperfect mirrors of the dappled sky: <br>On the fring'd margin of the dimpling tide, <br>Each od'rous bud, by FLORA'S pencil dy'd, <br>Expands its velvet leaves of lust'rous hue, <br>Bath'd in the essence of celestial dew: <br>While from the METEOR to the simplest FLOW R, <br>Prolific Nature ! we behold thy pow'r ! <br>Yet has mysterious Heaven with care consign'd <br>Thy noblest triumphs to the human mind; <br>MAN feels the proud preeminence impart <br>Intrepid firmness to his swelling heart; <br>Creation's lord ! where'er HE bends his way, <br>The torch of REASON spreads its godlike ray. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=455614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">As o'er SIClLlAN sands the Trav'ler roves, <br>Feeds on its fruits, and shelters in its groves, <br>Sudden amidst the calm retreat he hears <br>The pealing thunders in the distant spheres; <br>He sees the curling fumes from ETNA rise, <br>Shade the green vale, and blacken all the skies. <br>Around his head the forked lightnings glare,<br>The vivid streams illume the stagnant air: <br>The nodding hills hang low'ring o'er the deep, <br>The howling winds the clust'ring vineyards sweep; <br>The cavern'd rocks terrific tremours rend; <br>Low to the earth the tawny forests bend: <br>While He an ATOM in the direful scene, <br>Views the wild CHAOS, wond'ring, and serene; <br>Tho' at his feet sulphureous rivers roll, <br>No touch of terror shakes his conscious soul: <br>His MIND ! enlighten'd by PROMETHEAN rays <br>Expanding, glows with intellectual blaze! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=455614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Such scenes, long since, th' immortal POET charm'd,<br>His MUSE enraptur'd, and his FANCY warm'd:<br>From them he learnt with magic eye t' explore,<br>The dire ARCANUM of the STYGIAN shore !<br>Where the departed spirit trembling, hurl'd<br>"With restless violence round the pendent world,"<br>On the swift wings of whistling whirlwinds flung, <br>Plung'd in the wave, or on the mountain hung. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=455614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">While o'er yon cliff the ling'ring fires of day,<br>In ruby shadows faintly glide away; <br>The glassy source that feeds the CATARACT's stream, <br>Bears the last image of the solar beam: <br>Wide o'er the Landscape Nature's tints disclose, <br>The softest picture of sublime repose; <br>The sober beauties of EVE'S hour serene, <br>The scatter'd village, now but dimly seen, <br>The neighb'ring rock, whose flinty brow inclin'd, <br>Shields the clay cottage from the northern wind: <br>The variegated woodlands scarce we view, <br>The distant mountains ting'd with purple hue: <br>Pale twilight flings her mantle o'er the skies, <br>From the still lake, the misty vapours rise; <br>Cold show'rs descending on the western breeze, <br>Sprinkle with lucid drops the bending trees, <br>Whose spreading branches o'er the glade reclin'd, <br>Wave their dank leaves, and murmur to the wind. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=455614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Such scenes, O LOUTHERBOURG! thy pencil fir'd, <br>Warm'd thy great mind, and every touch inspir'd: <br>Beneath thy hand the varying colours glow, <br>Vast mountains rise, and crystal rivers flow: <br>Thy wond'rous Genius owns no pedant rule, <br>Nature's thy guide, and Nature's works thy school: <br>Pursue her steps, each rival's art defy, <br>For while she charms, THY NAME shall never die.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Mary+Darby+Robinson">Mary Darby Robinson</a></strong></div>