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High on the Solitude of Alpine Hills	A
O'er topping the grand imag'ry of Nature	B
Where one eternal winter seem'd to reign	C
An HERMIT'S threshold carpetted with moss	D
Diversified the Scene Above the flakes	E
Of silv'ry snow full many a modest flow'r	F
Peep'd through its icy veil and blushing ope'd	G
Its variegated hues The ORCHIS sweet	G
The bloomy CISTUS and the fragrant branch	H
Of glossy MYRTLE In his rushy cell	I
The lonely ANCHORET consum'd his days	J
Unnotic'd and unblest In early youth	K
Cross'd in the fond affections of his soul	L
By false Ambition from his parent home	M
He solitary wander'd while the Maid	G
Whose peerless beauty won his yielding heart	G
Pined in monastic horrors Near his sill	N
A little cross he rear'd where prostrate low	O
At day's pale glimpse or when the setting Sun	P
Tissued the western sky with streamy gold	G
His Orisons he pour'd for her whose hours	Q
Were wasted in oblivion Winters pass'd	G
And Summers faded slow unchearly all	R
To the lone HERMIT'S sorrows For still Love	S
A dark though unpolluted altar rear'd	G
On the white waste of wonders	Q
From the peak	T
Which mark'd his neighb'ring Hut his humid Eye	U
Oft wander'd o'er the rich expanse below	O
Oft trac'd the glow of vegetating Spring	V
The full blown Summer splendours and the hue	W
Of tawny scenes Autumnal Vineyards vast	G
Clothing the upland scene and spreading wide	G
The promised tide nectareous while for him	X
The liquid lapse of the slow brook was seen	Y
Flashing amid the trees its silv'ry wave	Z
Far distant the blue mist of waters rose	A2
Veiling the ridgy outline faintly grey	B2
Blended with clouds and shutting out the Sun	P
The Seasons still revolv'd and still was he	C2
By all forgotten save by her whose breast	G
Sigh'd in responsive sadness to the gale	D2
That swept her prison turrets Five long years	E2
Had seen his graces wither ere his Spring	V
Of life was wasted From the social scenes	F2
Of human energy an alien driv'n	P
He almost had forgot the face of Man	P
No voice had met his ear save when perchance	G2
The Pilgrim wand'rer or the Goatherd Swain	P
Bewilder'd in the starless midnight hour	B
Implored the HERMIT'S aid the HERMIT'S pray'rs	G2
And nothing loath by pity or by pray'r	F
Was he to save the wretched On the top	H2
Of his low rushy Dome a tinkling bell	I
Oft told the weary Trav'ller to approach	I2
Fearless of danger The small silver sound	G
In quick vibrations echo'd down the dell	I
To the dim valley's quiet while the breeze	G2
Slept on the glassy LEMAN Thus he past	G
His melancholy days an alien Man	P
From all the joys of social intercourse	G2
Alone unpitied by the world forgot	G
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His Scrip each morning bore the day's repast	G
Gather'd on summits mingling with the clouds	G2
From whose bleak altitude the Eye look'd down	P
While fast the giddy brain was rock'd by fear	J2
Oft would he start from visionary rest	G
When roaming wolves their midnight chorus howl'd	G
Or blasts infuriate shatter'd the white cliffs	G2
While the huge fragments rifted by the storm	K2
Plung'd to the dell below Oft would he sit	G
In silent sadness on the jutting block	L2
Of snow encrusted ice and shudd'ring mark	M2
Amid the wonders of the frozen world	G
Dissolving pyramids and threatening peaks	G2
Hang o'er his hovel terribly Sublime	N2
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And oft when Summer breath'd ambrosial gales	G2
Soft sailing o'er the waste of printless dew	G
Or twilight gossamer his pensive gaze	G2
Trac'd the swift storm advancing whose broad wing	V
Blacken'd the rushy dome of his low Hut	G
While the pale lightning smote the pathless top	H2
Of tow'ring CENIS scatt'ring high and wide	G
A mist of fleecy Snow Then would he hear	O2
While MEM'RY brought to view his happier days	G2
The tumbling torrent bursting wildly forth	P2
From its thaw'd prison sweep the shaggy cliff	Q2
Vast and Stupendous strength'ning as it fell	I
And delving 'mid the snow a cavern rude	G
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So liv'd the HERMIT like an hardy Tree	C2
Plac'd on a mountain's solitary brow	R2
And destin'd thro' the Seasons to endure	S2
Their wond'rous changes To behold the face	G2
Of ever varying Nature and to mark	M2
In each grand lineament the work of GOD	G
And happier he in total Solitude	G
Than the poor toil worn wretch whose ardent Soul	L
That GOD has nobly organiz'd but taught	G
For purposes unknown to bear the scourge	T2
Of sharp adversity and vulgar pride	G
Happier O happier far than those who feel	U2
Yet live amongst the unfeeling feeding still	N
The throbbing heart with anguish or with Scorn	P
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One dreary night when Winter's icy breath	V2
Half petrified the scene when not a star	F
Gleam'd o'er the black infinity of space	G2
Sudden the HERMIT started from his couch	W2
Fear struck and trembling Ev'ry limb was shook	X2
With painful agitation On his cheek	T
The blanch'd interpreter of horror mute	G
Sat terribly impressive In his breast	G
The ruddy fount of life convulsive flow'd	G
And his broad eyes fix'd motionless as death	V2
Gaz'd vacantly aghast His feeble lamp	Y2
Was wasting rapidly the biting gale	D2
Pierc'd the thin texture of his narrow cell	I
And Silence like a fearful centinel	I
Marking the peril which awaited near	J2
Conspir'd with sullen Night to wrap the scene	P
In tenfold horrors Thrice he rose and thrice	G2
His feet recoil'd and still the livid flame	Z2
Lengthen'd and quiver'd as the moaning wind	G
Pass'd thro' the rushy crevice while his heart	G
Beat like the death watch in his shudd'ring breast	G
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Like the pale Image of Despair he sat	G
The cold drops pacing down his hollow cheek	T
When a deep groan assail'd his startled ear	O2
And rous'd him into action To the sill	I
Of his low hovel he rush'd forth for fear	J2
Will sometimes take the shape of fortitude	G
And force men into bravery and soon	P
The wicker bolt unfasten'd The swift blast	G
Now unrestrain'd flew by and in its course	G2
The quiv'ring lamp extinguish'd and again	P
His soul was thrill'd with terror On he went	G
E'en to the snow fring'd margin of the cragg	A3
Which to his citadel a platform made	G
Slipp'ry and perilous 'Twas darkness all	I
All solitary gloom The concave vast	G
Of Heav'n frown'd chaos for all varied things	G2
Of air and earth and waters blended lost	G
Their forms in blank oblivion Yet not long	B3
Did Nature wear her sable panoply	I
For while the HERMIT listen'd from below	I
A stream of light ascended spreading round	G
A partial view of trackless solitudes	G2
And mingling voices seem'd with busy hum	C3
To break the spell of horrors Down the steep	D3
The HERMIT hasten'd when a shriek of death	V2
Re echoed to the valley As he flew	I
The treach'rous pathway yielding to his speed	G
Half hoping half despairing to the scene	P
Of wonder waking anguish suddenly	I
The torches were extinct and second night	G
Came doubly hideous while the hollow tongues	G2
Of cavern'd winds with melancholy sound	G
Increas'd the HERMIT'S fears Four freezing hours	G2
He watch'd and pray'd and now the glimm'ring dawn	P
Peer'd on the Eastern Summits the blue light	G
Shedding cold lustre on the colder brows	G2
Of Alpine desarts while the filmy wing	V
Of weeping Twilight swept the naked plains	G2
Of the Lombardian landscape	E3
On his knees	G2
The ANCHORET blest Heav'n that he had 'scap'd	G
The many perilous and fearful falls	G2
Of waters wild and foamy tumbling fast	G
From the shagg'd altitude But ere his pray'rs	G2
Rose to their destin'd Heav'n another sight	G
Than all preceding far more terrible	I
Palsied devotion's ardour On the Snow	I
Dappled with ruby drops a track was made	G
By steps precipitate a rugged path	F3
Down the steep frozen chasm had mark'd the fate	G
Of some night traveller whose bleeding form	K2
Had toppled from the Summit Lower still	I
The ANCHORET descended 'till arrived	G
At the first ridge of silv'ry battlements	G2
Where lifeless ghastly paler than the snow	I
On which her cheek repos'd his darling Maid	G
Slept in the dream of Death Frantic and wild	G
He clasp'd her stiff'ning form and bath'd with tears	G2
The lilies of her bosom icy cold	G
Yet beautiful and spotless	G2
Now afar	F
The wond'ring HERMIT heard the clang of arms	G2
Re echoing from the valley the white cliffs	G2
Trembled as though an Earthquake shook their base	G2
With terrible concussion Thund	G

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