“Of various trees a vista green” [poem, incorporated into “Genoa”]
Of various trees a vista green
a
Into
Whose living crystal shot between
All trembling with the leafy gleam
And coolly on a high arch span
The sportive light reflected ran
Thither and thither fast, b and through
That natural arched avenue
There showed a rich and mighty plain
Rolling its wooded waves away
And through the stretch of that champaign
A noble river wound its way 1
And on the horizon to the north
Pale gleams of icy snow came forth c
From the St Bernards fastnesses,
White as the wreathed salt sea spray
With the snow wreaths that ever press,
Upon that heaven girt boundary, 2
Boundary meet for Italy,
Most meet for such a lovely clime,
As it looks oer Marengos sea, 3
Unto the Apennine.
Tis sweet a topmost mountain ridge,
Impatiently to climb,
And there to stand and dream away,
A little space of time. 4
Into
the
a
streamlet looking down
Ruskin's line number
865Whose living crystal shot between
All trembling with the leafy gleam
And coolly on a high arch span
System generated line number
5The sportive light reflected ran
Thither and thither fast, b and through
Ruskin's line number
870That natural arched avenue
There showed a rich and mighty plain
×
Rolling its wooded waves away
System generated line number
10And through the stretch of that champaign
A noble river wound its way 1
Ruskin's line number
875And on the horizon to the north
Pale gleams of icy snow came forth c
From the St Bernards fastnesses,
System generated line number
15White as the wreathed salt sea spray
With the snow wreaths that ever press,
Ruskin's line number
880Upon that heaven girt boundary, 2
Boundary meet for Italy,
Most meet for such a lovely clime,
System generated line number
20As it looks oer Marengos sea, 3
Unto the Apennine.
Ruskin's line number
885Tis sweet a topmost mountain ridge,
Impatiently to climb,
And there to stand and dream away,
System generated line number
25A little space of time. 4