Grief  had  swept  over  him;  days  darkened  round:
Bellaggio,  Valintelvi,  smiled  in  vain,
And  Monte  Rosa  from  Helvetia  far
Advanced  to  meet  us,  wild  in  majesty
Above  the  glittering  crests  of  giant  sons
Stationed  around  ...  in  vain  too !  all  in  vain !  "

Nay,  not  wholly  so  ;  for  it  appears  from  what  Southey  wrote  of  his
journey  home,  immediately  on  his  return,  that  these  and  other  shapes
of  beauty  had  made  so  far  successful  appeal  to  him  as  even  to  shake
for  a  time  his  allegiance  to  his  native  lakes  and  mountains.
SOUTHEY    TO    LANDOR,  SEPTEMBER,   1816.
