A Lake I Behold



    Here are the Alpine landscapes which create
    A fund for contemplation; to admire
    Is a brief feeling of a trivial date;
      But something worthier do such scenes inspire:
    Here to be lonely is not desolate,
    For much I view which I could most desire,
    And, above all, a lake I can behold
Lovelier, not dearer, than our own of old.

-George Gordon, Lord Byron,
Epistle to Augusta, 1830







images © 1998 by Randy Wang
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