“The world’s great order dawns in sheen After long darkness rude, Divinelier imaged, clearer seen, With happier zeal pursued. “With hope extinct, and brow composed, I marked the present die; Its term of life was nearly closed, Yet it had more than I. “But thou, though to the world’s new hour Thou come with aspect marred, Shorn of the joy, the bloom, the power, Which best befits its bard; “Though more than half thy years be past, And spent thy youthful prime; Though, round thy firmer manhood cast, Hang weeds of our sad time “Whereof thy youth felt all the spell, And traversed all the shade,-- Though late, though dimmed, though weak, yet tell Hope to a world new-made! “Help it to fill that deep desire, The want which crazed our brain, Consumed our soul with thirst like fire, Immedicable pain; “Which to the wilderness drove out Our life, to Alpine snow, And palsied all our word with doubt, And all our work with woe. “What still of strength is left, employ, This end to help attain: _One common wave of thought and joy_ _Lifting mankind again!_” --The vision ended. I awoke As out of sleep, and no Voice moved: only the torrent broke The silence, far below. Soft darkness on the turf did lie; Solemn, o’er hut and wood, In the yet star-sown nightly sky, The peak of Jaman stood. Still in my soul the voice I heard Of Obermann! Away I turned; by some vague impulse stirred, Along the rocks of Naye,-- Past Sonchaud’s piny flanks I gaze, And the blanched summit bare Of Malatrait, to where in haze The Valais opens fair, And the domed Velan, with his snows, Behind the upcrowding hills, Doth all the heavenly opening close Which the Rhone’s murmur fills; And glorious there, without a sound, Across the glimmering lake, High in the Valais-depth profound, I saw the morning break. NOTES. NOTE [1], PAGE 2. _Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen._ The name Europe (Εὐρώπη, _the wide prospect_) probably describes the appearance of the European coast to the Greeks on the coast of Asia Minor opposite. The name Asia, again, comes, it has been thought, from the muddy fens of the rivers of Asia Minor, such as the Cayster or Mæander, which struck the imagination of the Greeks living near them. NOTE [2], PAGE 8. _Mycerinus._ “After Chephren, Mycerinus, son of Cheops, reigned over Egypt. He abhorred his father’s courses, and judged his subjects more justly than any of their kings had done. To him there came an oracle from the city of Buto, to the effect that he was to live but six years longer, and to die in the seventh year from that time.”--HERODOTUS. NOTE [3], PAGE 37. _Stagirius._