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GERTRUDE OF WYOMING.

PART II.

I.A Valley from the river shore withdrawnWas Albert's home, two quiet woods between,Whose lofty verdure overlooked his lawn;And waters to their resting place sereneCame freshening, and reflecting all the scene:(A mirror in the depth of flowery shelves;)So sweet a spot of earth, you might (I ween)Have guessed some congregation of the elves,To sport by summer moons, had shaped it for themselves.
II.Yet wanted not the eye far scope to muse,Nor vistas opened by the wandering stream;Both where at evening Alleghany views,Through ridges burning in her western beam,Lake after lake interminably gleam:And past those settlers' haunts the eye might roamWhere earth's unliving silence all would seem;Save where on rocks the beaver built his dome.Or buffalo remote lowed far from human home.
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