Yes! all we have to do is to let down their lids--to will what our eyes shall see--and, lo! there it is--a creation! Day dawns, and for our delight in soft illumination from the dim obscure floats slowly up a visionary loch--island after island evolving itself into settled stateliness above its trembling shadow, till, from the overpowering beauty of the wide confusion of woods and waters, we seek relief, but find none, in gazing on the sky; for the east is in all the glory of sunrise, and the heads and the names of the mountains are uncertain among the gorgeous colouring of the clouds. Would that we were a painter! Oh! how we should dash, on the day and interlace it with night! That chasm should be filled with enduring gloom, thicker and thicker, nor the sun himself suffered to assuage the sullen spirit, now lowering and threatening there, as if portentous of earthquake. Danger and fear should be made to hang together for ever on those cliffs, and half-way up the precipice be fixed the restless cloud ascending from the abyss, so that in imagination you could not choose but hear the cataract. The Shadows should seem to be stalking away like evil spirits before angels of light--for at our bidding the Splendours should prevail against them, deploying from the gates of Heaven beneath the banners of morn. Yet the whole picture should be harmonious as a hymn--as a hymn at once sublime and sweet--serene and solemn; nor should it not be felt as even cheerful--and sometimes as if there were about to be merriment in Nature's heart--for the multitude of the isles should rejoice--and the new-woke waters look as if they were waiting for the breezes to enliven them into waves, and wearied of rest to be longing for the motion already beginning to rustle by fits along the sylvan shores. Perhaps a deer or two--but we have opened a corner of the fringed curtains of our eyes--the idea is gone--and Turner or Thomson must transfer from our paper to his canvass the imperfect outline--for it is no more--and make us a present of the finished picture.