^^  echoing  ^otsteps  in  the  aisles,  They  were  lovers  all ;  and  the  exqui-

**>«  occasional  high  and   rapturous  site  harmony  existing  between  the

'^•'^  from  the  choir,  ana  grand  young  and  happy  so  circumstanced

aphonies  from  the  orsan.    These  with  regard  to  each  other  in  Madeira,

JH*  attract  you  to  the  gallery,  where  and  the  lovely  flowery  scenery  with

^^  the  window  you  have  a  scene  which  they  are  surrounded,  can  only,

•"^ich  it  is  a  high  privilege  to  look  on  in  my  opinion,  find  its  parallel  in  this

^^  in  a  lifetime.  self-same  "  island  paradise,"  in  a  pic-

I^Beneath  you  is  the  adro  and  the  ture,  or  in  the  me-dream  of  some

J^t,  as  already  described  ;  farther  impassioned  poet

^^  lies  the  city,  its  white  streets  Numerous   marriages   follow  the

^[6ping  up  into  hills  dothed  with  interval  of  idleness  and  pleasure  oc-

-'^.^  as  with  a  garment,  wliile  en-  casioned  by  the  celebration  of  this


^^  — i,  or  rather  enfolding  them,  is  festa.  The  Madeiransare  aflectionate
^^amphitheatre  of  mountains,  whose  and  impressionable,  possessing,  not
.2j^'  *re  flooded  in  ^Iden  light,  *  alone  the  poetry  of  sentiment  and
1^^^  feet  are  covered  with  ocean's  idea,  but  or  real  life  in  its  simple  and
^^^  and  down  whose  sides  streams    noble  purity ;  while  their  powei  o€

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