[HU] Compare Coleridge's Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni—
Ed.
Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost!
XIX
EFFUSION,
In Presence of the Painted Tower of Tell, at Altorf
This Tower stands upon the spot where grew the Linden Tree against which his Son is said to have been placed, when the Father's archery was put to proof under circumstances so famous in Swiss Story.
What though the Italian pencil wrought not here,
Nor such fine skill as did the meed bestow[510]
On Marathonian valour,[HV] yet the tear