...banks, though Empires near them fall. Bat these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Natnre, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce...

...all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXII 590 But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast...icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls 595 The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around...

...something that made these lines of Byron's characteristic of a modern taste in landscape scenery: Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals Gather around these summits....

...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. “But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appalls, Gather around these...

...were the portals of her temple, stand rugged peaks, inspiring awe and reverence— "The Alps, Those palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." A religion in such close sympathy with Nature, and so deeply penetrated by the sense of Beauty, may...

...the Alps, 590 The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, 61 And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity,...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All which expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce...