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ART AND NATURE.

THE BRIDGE BETWEEN CLIFTON AND LEIGH WOODS.

1 Frown ever opposite, the angel cried,
2 Who, with an earthquake's might and giant hand,
3 Severed these riven rocks, and bade them stand
4 Severed for ever! The vast ocean-tide,[Page 28]
5 Leaving its roar without at his command,
6 Shrank, and beneath the woods through the green land
7 Went gently murmuring on, so to deride
8 The frowning barriers that its force defied!
9 But Art, high o'er the trailing smoke below
10 Of sea-bound steamer, on yon summit's head
11 Sat musing; and where scarce a wandering crow
12 Sailed o'er the chasm, in thought a highway led;
13 Conquering, as by an arrow from a bow,
14 The scene's lone Genius by her elfin-thread.
Clifton, 27th August 1836.

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Title (in Source Edition): ART AND NATURE. THE BRIDGE BETWEEN CLIFTON AND LEIGH WOODS.
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Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street..., 1855, pp. 27-28.  (Page images digitized from a copy held at the University of California Libraries.)

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