Byron infuses into Rousseau's accurate and charming compositions of scenic effects, if not the "glory," yet "the freshness of a dream." He belonged to the new age, with its new message from nature to man, and, in spite of theories and prejudices, listened and was convinced. He extols Rousseau's recognition of nature, lifting it to the height of his own argument; but, consciously or unconsciously, he desires to find, and finds, in nature a spring of imagination undreamt of by the Apostle of Sentiment. There is a whole world of difference between Rousseau's persuasive and delicate patronage of Nature, and Byron's passionate, though somewhat belated, surrender to her inevitable claim. With Rousseau, Nature is a means to an end, a conduct of refined and heightened fancy; whereas, to Byron, "her reward was with her," a draught of healing and refreshment.] [kk] {277} _The trees have grown from Love_----.--[MS. erased.] [kl] {278} _By rays which twine there_----.--[MS.] [km] _Clarens--sweet Clarens--thou art Love's abode_-- _Undying Love's--who here hath made a throne_.--[MS.] [kn] _And girded it with Spirit which is shown_ _From the steep summit to the rushing Rhone_.--[MS. erased.] [ko] ----_whose searching power_ _Surpasses the strong storm in its most desolate hour_.--[MS.] [340] [Compare _La Nouvelle Héloïse_, Partie IV. Lettre xvii, _Oeuvres, etc._, ii. 262: "Un torrent, formé par la fonte des neiges, rouloit à vingt pas de nous line eau bourbeuse, et charrioit avec bruit du limon, du sable et des pierres.... Des forêts de noirs sapins nous ombrageoient tristement à droite. Un grand bois de chênes étoit à gauche au-delà du torrent."] [kp] {279} _But branches young as Heaven_----[MS. erased,] [kq] ----_with sweeter voice than words_.--[MS.] [341] [Compare the _Pervigilium Veneris_-- "Cras amet qui nunquam amavit, Quique amavit eras amet." ("Let those love now, who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more.") Parnell's _Vigil of Venus: British Poets_, 1794, vii. 7.] [kr] {279} ----_driven him to repose._--[MS.] [342] [Compare _Confessions of J. J. Rousseau_, lib. iv., _passim._]