It was with great pleasure that I saw, during the two ascents which we made, several children, of different ages, tripping up and down the slender spire, and pausing to look around them, with feelings much more animated than could have been derived from these or the finest works of art, if placed within easy reach .-- Remember also that you have the Alps on one side, and on the other the Apennines, with the plain of Lombardy between! 287.

_A Religious Procession_.

[XXXII.] 'Still, with those white-robed Shapes--a living Stream, The glacier pillars join in solemn guise.' This Procession is a part of the sacramental service performed once a month.

In the valley of Engleberg we had the good fortune to be present at the _Grand Festival_ of the Virgin--but the Procession on that day, though consisting of upwards of 1000 persons, assembled from all the branches of the sequestered valley, was much less striking (notwithstanding the sublimity of the surrounding scenery): it wanted both the simplicity of the other and the accompaniment of the Glacier-columns, whose sisterly resemblance to the _moving_ Figures gave it a most beautiful and solemn peculiarity.
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_Elegiac Stanzas_.