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CHAP. XI.

Bring roses, violets, and the cold snow-drop,Beautiful in tears, to strew the path-wayOf our saintly sister.

A few devotees only had begun to ascend the mountain, and Vivaldi kept aloof even from these, pursuing a lonely track, for his thoughtful mind de­sired solitude. The early breeze sighing among the foliage, that waved high over the path, and the hol­low dashing of distant waters, he listened to with com­placency, for these were sounds which soothed yet promoted his melancholy mood; and he sometimes rested to gaze upon the scenery around him, for this too was in harmony with the temper of his mind. Dis­appointment had subdued the wilder energy of his pas­sions, and pro-duced

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