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Rivers-Rhine: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

St. 55. The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.— HEINE — The Lorelei.

Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past.— LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Bk. I. Ch. III.

The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!— LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Bk. I. Ch. II.

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.— RUSKIN — A Tour on the Continent. Via

Mala. Oh, sweet is thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!— HORACE WALLACE — Ode on the Rhine's

Returning into Germany from France. Rhone. Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love Earth only for its earthly sake? By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 71.

Thou Royal River, born of sun and shower In chambers purple with the Alpine glow, Wrapped in the spotless ermine of the snow And rocked by tempests!— LONGFELLOW — To the River Rhone.

Scheld. Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po!— GOLDSMITH — The Traveller. L. 1.