...yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near 1 "Pis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain with its azure hue. Thus, with...

...which had suggested the thought : " — " Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs,...the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." On the 31st of May, a month after the publication of his poem, Campbell writes thus to Mr. James Thomson...

...glittering hills below, o THOMAS CAMPBELL. 143 Why to yon monntain tarns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs...shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape shining near ? 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the Tiew, And robes the mountain in its azure hue....

...attracts and fascinates us far more than any part of the landscape which is nearer to us. Why ? " 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue." All the asperities of that remote and elevated prospect, are lost sight of in the intervening medium...

...reverent and becoming way. Distance often lends boldness to the tongue, just as the poet Campbell says it Lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. There are few great men who haven'ta dozen people, at least, who " keep them right," as they call it....

...the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summits mingle with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape shining near ? "Us distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue....

...yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape...lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain with its azure hue. Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured...

...bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs...appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thus, with...

...bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky: Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the varied landscape near ? When summoned from the world and thee I lay my head beneath the willow tree,...

...yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those hills of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ? 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain with its azure hue. Thus, with...