Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422, page 59 by Various Authors
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em, and that they constitute the richest class in the principality. In fact, pig-jobbers are here men of the highest rank: the prince, his ministers, civil and military governors, are all engaged in this lucrative traffic.--_Spencer's Travels._
MOUNTAINS IN SNOW.
Cold--oh, deathly cold--and silent, lie the white hills 'neath the sky, Like a soul whom fate has covered with thy snows, Adversity! Not a sough of wind comes moaning; the same outline, high and bare, As in pleasant days of summer, rises in the murky air.
Very quiet--very silent--whether shines the mocking sun Through the wintry blue, or lowering drift the feathery snow-clouds dun: Always quiet, always silent, be it night or be it day, With that pale shroud coldly lying where the heather-blossoms lay.
Can they be the very mountains that we looked at, you and I? One long wavy line of purple painted on the sunset sky; With the new moon's edge just touching that dark rim, like dancer's foot, Or young Dian's, on the hill-side for Endymion waiting mute.
O how golden was that even!--O how balm the summer air! How the bridegroom sky bent loving o'er its earth so virgin fair! How the earth looked up to heaven like a bride with joy oppressed, In her thankfulness half-weeping that she was thus overblest!
Ghostly mountains! 'Silence--silence!' now is aye your soundless voice, Lifted in an awful patience o'er the world's uproarious noise; O'er its jarrings and its greetings--o'er its loving and its hate-- Silence! Bare thy brows all dumbly to the snows of heaven, and--wait!'
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