[The next book put forth by Shelley after Alastor and other Poems was the little volume containing, among other things, the following poem, and whereof the title runs thus: "History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni. London, Published by T. Hookham, Jun. Old Bond Street; and C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Street. 1817." The History and two of the letters are by Mrs. Shelley,-the rest of the letters, two in number, by Shelley to Peacock. This poem, as well as the Alastor, was included in the volume of Posthumous Poems (1824). In Shelley's preface to the Six Weeks' Tour, it is stated that Mont Blanc "was composed under the immediate impression of the deep and powerful feelings excited by the objects which it attempts to describe; and as an undisciplined overflowing of the soul, rests its claim to approbation on an attempt to imitate the untameable wildness and inaccessible solemnity from which those feelings sprang." Mrs. Shelley says the poem was inspired by the view, as Shelley "lingered on the Bridge of Arve on his way through the Vale of Chamouni.”—H. B. F.] MONT BLANC. LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI. I. THE everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, In the wild woods, among the mountains lone, Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river II. Thus thou, Ravine of Arve-dark, deep Ravine- Over whose pines, and crags, and caverns sail 10 15 I take it Shelley meant cloudshadows, but omitted the hyphen, as he often does in such cases, e. g. in the next line but one, ice gulphs. Ms un jury Shelley after Alastor and other Poems A Manag ang other things, the following poem, and sary of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of me: Sema sa 5.Jind: with Letters descriptive of a Sai and the lacers of Chamouni. London, Publ FJ E Rad Street; and C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Fermi wt of the letters are by Mrs. Shelley,-the re FunerShelley to Peacock. This poem, as well as the we theme of Posthumous Poems (1824). In Shelley' Faris stated that Mont Blanc "was composed u ALTN of the deep and powerful feelings excited by the I attends u describe; and as an undisciplined overflowing of cm aerobatic or an attempt to imitate the untameable sotemnity from which those feelings sprang." Mrs *~ the well as inspired by the view, as Shelley "lingered on the. thugh the Vale of Chamouni."-H. B. F.] THE everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind and rolls its rapid waves, In the whi woods, among the mountains loue, Where waterfalls and it leap for ever, Where wood and winds on, and a vast five Over the nike seaslessly borse and raise Thy1 giant brood of pines around thee clinging, The chainless winds still come and ever came Robes some unsculptured image; the strange sleep 20 25 30 85 40 One legion of wild thoughts, whose wandering wings Ghosts of all things that are, some shade of thee, III. Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep,-that death is slumber, 1 The in Mrs. Shelley's editions of 1839. 45 50 |