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 A sordid groupegroup [sic] the Belgian marshes pleased, And Saxony's wild forests Freedom seized, There held her juries, poised the legal scales;— And Spain's romantic hills and lonely dales The pensive Lover sought; and Spain became The land of gallantry and amorous flame. Hail, favour'd clime! whose lone retreats inspire The softest dreams of languishing desire, Affections trembling with a glow all holy, Wildly sublime, and sweetly melancholy; 'Till rapt devotion to the Fair, refine And bend each passion low at Honour's shrine. So felt the iron Goth when here he brought His worship of the Fair with valour fraught: Soon as Iberia's mountains fixt his home, He rose a character unknown to Rome; His manners wildly colour'd as the flowers And flaunting plumage of Brazilian bowers: New to the world as these, yet polish'd more Than e'er the pupil of the Attic lore Might