...from the summit, and waving as it hangs ; but it suggested to Byron another striking imagination : ' Like the pale courser's tail, The giant steed to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.' Lakes characterise the country more than any other part of continental Europe, with the exception of...

...roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its linee of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale...in the Apocalypse. No eyes But mine now drink this aight of loveliness ; I should be sole in this sweet solitude, And with the Spirit of the place divide...

...heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro,...Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.14 No eyes But mine now drink this sight of loveliness ; I should be sole in this sweet...

...heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crags headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming .light along And to and fro,...be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse." A short distance from Lauterbrunnen is Murren rrVl » r oa.d to it is close by the Capricorne, and...

...descended into white lines and spray ; quite realising Manfred's comparison of a cataract to . . . the pale courser's tail, The giant steed to be bestrode by Death. Whilst gazing, a large black serpent wriggled slowly across the stony bottom of the ravine just beyond...

...white horse streaming in the wind — " O'er the craga headlong perpendicular, And flings ita line of foaming light along And to and fro, like the pale...be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse." - The Wengernalp is a pass at some hours' journey from Interlaken, about 6,000 to 7,000 feet in height....

...bird of Paradise, to the descent of a shower of rockets, etc., etc. Byron compares it to the tail of " The giant steed to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse ;" Wordsworth calls it a " sky-born waterfall ;" Goethe and several other poets have also sung its...

...perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like-the pale eö'urser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.' Manfred II, 2. Im Swiss Journal heisst es am 22. September: Fragen wir nun, was von dem cliarakter...

...heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling many windings through the vale: — Look back ! Lo I where it comes like an eternity, lovelmess ; I should be sole in this sweet solitude, And with the Spirit of the place divide The homage...

...heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crags headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro,...be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse." Wordsworth has described the Staubbach as a " sky -bom waterfall ; " and when the clouds are wreathing...