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EVENING AMONG THE ALPS by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

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First Line: SOFT SKIES OF ITALY! HOW RICHLY DREST
Last Line: AND ROVES THE ALPINE GALE O'ER SOLITUDES AFAR.
Subject(s): ALPS; MOUNTAINS; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);
SOFT skies of Italy! how richly drest,
Smile these wild scenes in your purpureal glow;
What glorious hues, reflected from the west,
Float o'er the dwellings of eternal snow!
You torrent, foaming down the granite steep,
Sparkles all brilliance in the setting beam;
Dark glens beneath in shadowy beauty sleep,
Where pipes the goatherd by his mountain-stream.

Now from yon peak departs the vivid ray,
That still at eve its lofty temple knows;
From rock and torrent fade the tints away,
And all is wrapt in twilight's deep repose:
While through the pine-wood gleams the vesper-star,
And roves the Alpine gale o'er solitudes afar.



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