Obtaining ampler boon, at every step, Of visual sovereignty--hills multitudinous, 40 (Not Apennine can boast of fairer) hills Pride of two nations, wood and lake and plains, And prospect right below of deep coves shaped[69] By skeleton arms, that, from the mountain’s trunk Extended, clasp the winds, with mutual moan 45 Struggling for liberty, while undismayed The shepherd struggles with them. Onward thence And downward by the skirt of Greenside fell,[70] And by Glenridding-screes,[71] and low Glencoign,[72] Places forsaken now, though[73] loving still 50 The muses, as they loved them in the days Of the old minstrels and the border bards.-- But here am I fast bound; and let it pass, The simple rapture;--who that travels far To feed his mind with watchful eyes could share 55 Or wish to share it?--One there surely was, “The Wizard of the North,” with anxious hope Brought to this genial climate, when disease Preyed upon body and mind--yet not the less Had his sunk eye kindled at those dear words 60 That spake of bards and minstrels; and his spirit Had flown with mine to old Helvellyn’s brow, Where once together, in his day of strength, We stood rejoicing,[74] as if earth were free From sorrow, like the sky above our heads. 65 Years followed years, and when, upon the eve Of his last going from Tweed-side, thought turned, Or by another’s sympathy was led, To this bright land, Hope was for him no friend, Knowledge no help; Imagination shaped 70 No promise. Still, in more than ear-deep seats, Survives for me, and cannot but survive The tone of voice which wedded borrowed words To sadness not their own, when, with faint smile Forced by intent to take from speech its edge, 75 He said, “When I am there, although ’tis fair, ’Twill be another Yarrow.”[75] Prophecy More than fulfilled, as gay Campania’s shores Soon witnessed, and the city of seven hills, Her sparkling fountains, and her mouldering tombs; 80 And more than all, that Eminence[76] which showed Her splendours, seen, not felt, the while he stood A few short steps (painful they were) apart From Tasso’s Convent-haven, and retired grave.[77]