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First Line: From the green vale of urseren smooth and wide
Last Line: Alike in whelming snows and roaring waves.
Subject(s): Reuss (river), Switzerland


FROM the green vale of Urseren smooth and wide
Descend we now, the maddened Reuss our guide;
By rocks that, shutting out the blessed day,
Cling tremblingly to rocks as loose as they;
By cells upon whose image, while he prays,
The kneeling peasant scarcely dares to gaze;
By many a votive death-cross planted near,
And watered duly with the pious tear,
That faded silent from the upward eye,
Unmoved with each rude form of peril night;
Fixed on the anchor left by Him who saves
Alike in whelming snows and roaring waves.





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