Of visual sovereignty—hills multitudinous, 40

(Not Apennine can boast of fairer) hills

Pride of two nations, wood and lake and plains,

And prospect right below of deep coves shaped[69]

By skeleton arms, that, from the mountain’s trunk

Extended, clasp the winds, with mutual moan 45

Struggling for liberty, while undismayed

The shepherd struggles with them. Onward thence

And downward by the skirt of Greenside fell,[70]

And by Glenridding-screes,[71] and low Glencoign,[72]