[At Home And Abroad by Margaret Fuller Ossoli]@TWC D-Link bookAt Home And Abroad PART II 20/526
The wildness is not savage, but very calm.
Without recurring to details, I recognized the tone and atmosphere of that noble poem, which was to me, at a feverish period in my life, as pure waters, free breezes, and cold blue sky, bringing a sense of eternity that gave an aspect of composure to the rudest volcanic wrecks of time. We dined at a farm-house of the vale, with its stone floors, old carved cabinet (the pride of a house of this sort), and ready provision of oaten cakes.
We then ascended a near hill to the waterfall called Dungeon-Ghyll Force, also a subject touched by Wordsworth's Muse.
You wind along a path for a long time, hearing the sound of the falling water, but do not see it till, descending by a ladder the side of the ravine, you come to its very foot.
You find yourself then in a deep chasm, bridged over by a narrow arch of rock; the water falls at the farther end in a narrow column.
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