STILL by the LEMAN Lake, for many a mile, Where damsels sit and weave their fishing-nets, с That there came down, a torrent from the Alps, With many a tuning of rude instruments, And many a laugh that argued coming pleasure, And in my dreams wandered once more, well-pleased. I had at morn and even wished for there. NIGHT was again descending, when my mule, That all day long had climbed among the clouds, Higher and higher still, as by a stair Let down from Heaven itself, transporting me, Stopped, to the joy of both, at that low door, That door, which ever, as self-opened, moves To them that knock, and nightly sends abroad Ministering Spirits. Lying on the watch, |