_The Excursion_, iv. (_The Works of Wordsworth_, 1889, p. 461).] [336] {273} [Compare the well-known song which forms the prelude of the _Hebrew Melodies_-- "She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes."] [ke] ----_Oh glorious Night_ _That art not sent_----.--[MS.] [kf] {274} _A portion of the Storm--a part of thee_.--[MS.] [kg] ----_a fiery sea_.--[MS.] [kh] _As they had found an heir and feasted o'er his birth_.--[MS. erased.] [ki] _Hills which look like brethren with twin heights_ _Of a like aspect_----.--[MS. erased.] [337] [There can be no doubt that Byron borrowed this metaphor from the famous passage in Coleridge's _Christabel_ (ii. 408-426), which he afterwards prefixed as a motto to _Fare Thee Well_. The latter half of the quotation runs thus-- "But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining-- They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once had been."] [kj] {275} _Of separation drear_----.--[MS. erased.] [338] [There are numerous instances of the use of "knoll" as an alternative form of the verb "to knell;" but Byron seems, in this passage, to be the authority for "knoll" as a substantive.] [339] [For Rousseau's description of Vevey, see _Julie; ou, La Nouvelle Héloise_, Partie I. Lettre xxiii., _Oevres de J. J. Rousseau_, 1836, ii. 36: "Tantôt d'immenses rochers pendoient en ruines au-dessus de ma tête. Tantôt de hautes et bruyantes cascades m'inondoient de leur epais brouillard: tantôt un torrent éternel ouvroit à mes côtés un abîme dont les yeux n'osoient sonder la profondeur. Quelquefois je me perdois dans l'obscurité d'un bois touffu. Quelquefois, en sortant d'un gouffre, une agréable prairie, réjouissoit tout-à-coup mes regards. Un mélange étonnant de la nature sauvage et de la nature cultivée, montroit partout la main des hommes, où l'on eût cru qu'ils n'avoient jamais pénétré: a côté d'une caverne on trouvoit des maisons; on voyoit des pampres secs où l'on n'eût cherché que des ronces, des vignes dans des terres éboullées, d'excellens fruits sur des rochers, et des champs dans des précipices." See, too, Lettre xxxviii. p. 56; Partie IV. Lettre xi. p. 238 (the description of Julie's Elysium); and Partie IV. Lettre xvii. p. 260 (the excursion to Meillerie).