...— Snow-pits. — Scenery. — A singular Ride and a pleasant Acquaintance. " Around are banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossomed trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scattered cities crowning these. Above, the frequent feudal towers...

...thoDrachenfels, or Dragon Rock, concerning which the poet sings so sweetly :— The castled crag of Drachenfela Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine,...

...which he has afforded us the following enchanting picture : " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns on the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine ; And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine,...

...which he has afforded us the following enchanting picture : " The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns on the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine ; And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine,...

...WRITTEN ON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE. ADDRESSED BY THE POET TO HIS SISTER. THE castled crag of Drachenfels 2 Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, 1 Every man is fastened to some spot of earth, by the thousand small threads that...

...interesting by the allusion to it in Childe Harold : "The castled crag of Drachenfels Ir.iwns o'ur the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which Ьеиг the vine, And hills all rich with blos-om'd trees, And fields which promise com and...

...shore Well to that heart might hie these absent greetings pour 1. The castled crag of Drachenfels ' ' ordon Byron Byron( which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine,...

...Well to th.it heart might his these absent greetings pour ! 1. THE ensiled crag of Drachenfels (t) Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between ihe banks which bear Ihe vine, And hills all rich wilh hlossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn...

...Dragon). Byron's deseription of it renders every other superfluous : — The eastle erag of Draehenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks whieh bear the vine ; And hills all rieh with blossomed trees, And fields whieh promise eorn and wine,...

...descriptions of its scenery from other pens. " The castled crag of Drachcufels Frowns o'er the wild and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hill - all rich with blossomed trees, And fields which promise com and wine,...