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of birds;  with  tliy  corridors  of  sundered  stone,  and glacier valleys  silvered  with  moonlit  lakes,  and  cool refreshing basins  filled  with  transparent  blue;  with thy boisterous  alpine  streams,  and  quiet  lowland rivers, and  sluofofish  waters  wandering-  throuo-h  char- rcterless sloughs;  with  thy  scraggy  scattering  oaks, and tangled  undergrowth,  mirrored  in  crystalline  pools, and flowering  shrubs,  and  mighty  sable  forests;  with thy sunlight  soft  and  hazy,  and  air  sea-scented  and sparkling yet  mellow,  stimulating  yet  restful,  and  pure and sweet  as  that  which  blows  from  Araby  the  Blest, yet strong  withal,  wooing  the  sick  and  care-laden, cooling the  vein-swollen  brow,  thrilling  the  blood  with ocean's stimulants  and  giving  new  life,  not  stifling  it; with thy  native  men  and  beasts,  and  birds  and  fishes, and fields  of  native  grain,  all  hitherto  unmarred  by man,  all  fresh  as  from  the  hand  of  the  creator  revel- ling in primeval  joy  and  fragrance,  while  the  valley murmurs its  contentment,  and  the  forest  cypress  nods its sable  plume;  crimson  purple  and  violet  in  thy blushing beauty  veiled  in  misty  gauze  that  rises  fresh and glistening  from  the  sun-beaten  ocean,  and  fills  the heavens thick  with  spray  or  whirls  off*  in  eddying clouds round  the  mountain  tops,  breaking  from  mina- ret and spire  into  long  streamlets  edged  by  burnished sunlight ; voluptuous  thus,  or  fierce  in  thy  wild  unrest, in th}'  lashed  energies  fiery  as  Achilles,  whatever  be thy  mood  or  circumstance,  thou  art  a  song  of  nature ringing an  ever  changing  melody,  thou  art  the  smile that lit  Jehovah's  face  when  he  saw  that  it  was  good !