Where freezing wastes of dazzl’ing Snow

O’er Leman’s Lake rose, tow’ring;

The Baron Golfre’s Castle strong

Was seen, the silv’ry peaks among,

With ramparts, darkly low’ring!—

Tall Battlements of flint, uprose,

Long shadowing down the valley,

A grove of sombre Pine, antique,

Amid the white expanse would break,

In many a gloomy alley.