A pensive stranger, journeying at his leisure 475

Through some Helvetian dell, when low-hung mists

Break up, and are beginning to recede;

How pleased he is where thin and thinner grows

The veil, or where it parts at once, to spy

The dark pines thrusting forth their spiky heads; 480

To watch the spreading lawns with cattle grazed,

Then to be greeted by the scattered huts,

As they shine out; and see the streams whose murmur

Had soothed his ear while they were hidden: how pleased