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— John Milton

Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15

Afford a present to the Infant God?

Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,

To welcome him to this his new abode,

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SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN.

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Lord Byron·1788–1824·Romanticism
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ousseau--Voltaire--our Gibbon--and De Staël--Leman![75] these names are worthy of thy shore,Thy shore of names like these! wert thou no more,Their memory thy remembrance would recall:To them thy banks were lovely as to all,But they have made them lovelier, for the loreOf mighty minds doth hallow in the coreOf human hearts the ruin of a wallWhere dwelt the wise and wondrous; but by _thee_How much more, Lake of Beauty! do we feel,In sweetly gliding o'er thy crystal sea,[76]The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal,Which of the Heirs of ImmortalityIs proud, and makes the breath of Glory real! Diodati, _July_, 1816. [First published, _Prisoner of Chillon_, etc., 1816.] STANZAS TO AUGUSTA.[n][77]
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