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First Line: I listen - but no faculty of mine
Last Line: And joys of distant home my heart enchain.
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Saint Gothard, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


(OF SAINT GOTHARD)

I LISTEN, -- but no faculty of mine
Avails those modulations to detect,
Which, heard in foreign lands, the Swiss affect
With tenderest passion; leaving him to pine
(So fame reports) and die, -- his sweet-breathed kine
Remembering, and green Alpine pastures decked
With vernal flowers. Yet may we not reject
The tale as fabulous. -- Here while I recline,
Mindful how others by this simple strain
Are moved, for me, -- upon this mountain named
Of God himself from dread pre-eminence, --
Aspiring thoughts, by memory reclaimed,
Yield to the music's touching influence;
And joys of distant home my heart enchain.





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