Poems

by Matthew Arnold

Note [28],] [Page 348].

Glion? Ah! twenty years, it cuts.

Probably all who know the Vevey end of the Lake of Geneva will recollect Glion, the mountain village above the Castle of Chillon. Glion now has hotels, pensions, and villas; but twenty years ago it was hardly more than the huts of Avant opposite to it,—huts through which goes that beautiful path over the Col de Jaman, followed by so many foot-travellers on their way from Vevey to the Simmenthal and Thun.

Note [29],] [Page 349].

The gentian-flowered pass, its crown.

See Note 15.

Note [30],] [Page 349].

And walls where Byron came.

Montbovon. See Byron’s Journal, in his “Works,” vol. iii. p. 258. The river Saane becomes the Sarine below Montbovon.