We had not prepared ourselves for this beautiful, poetic work of art, and hence it was perhaps doubly difficult to leave it; but time pressed, and Herr H—— led the way back to the brilliant quay. He was eloquent on its palatial hotels, and proud that in this particular Lucerne is so far ahead of all other Swiss towns, except perhaps Geneva. But still, he said, this did not compensate him for olden days. How different it had been in his boyhood, in the years prior to 1820, when the present Schweizerhof Quay did not exist! A long, covered wooden bridge, 1,300 feet in length, ran, in its stead, from the middle of the town, near the Swan Hotel, right across here to the foot of the Hofkirche. And then, to our intense regret, we discovered that this was the chief bridge mentioned by Wordsworth in his continental tour. He first speaks of the Hafellbrücke, still existing, and then goes on to say: “Like portraiture, from loftier source, endears That work of kindred frame, which spans the lake Just at the point of issue, when it fears The form and motion of a stream to take; When it begins to stir, _yet_ voiceless as a snake. “Volumes of sound, from the cathedral rolled, This long‐roofed vista penetrate; but see, One after one, its tablets, that unfold The whole design of Scripture history; From the first tasting of the fatal tree, Till the bright star appeared in eastern skies, Announcing One was born mankind to free; His acts, his wrongs, his final sacrifice; Lessons for every heart, a Bible for all eyes. “_our_ pride misleads, our timid likings kill. Long may these homely works devised of old, These simple efforts of Helvetian skill, Aid, with congenial influence, to uphold The state, the country’s destiny to mould; Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold; Filling the soul with sentiments august— The beautiful, the brave, the holy, and the just.” Then in a note he goes on to relate that the pictures on the “cathedral bridge amounted to 240, all from Scripture history; subjects from the Old Testament faced the passenger going to the cathedral, and those from the New as he returns.” What would he have said could he have foreseen such a speedy annihilation of his aspirations for their long maintenance, and especially when replaced by all that drives away remembrance of that “history” and tends to keep men’s thoughts fastened to earth instead of raised to heaven!