. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. any a broken link,In many a turn and traverse as it glides ;And oft above and oft below through its fairy course, go where it will,The torrent stops it not; the rugged rockOpens and lets it in ; and on it runs,Winning its easy way from clime to clime. But now t is passed,That turbulent chaos ; and the promised landLies at my feet in all its loveliness !To him who starts up from a terrible lo ! the sun is shining and the larkSinging aloud for joy, to him is notSuch sudden ravishment as now I feelAt the first glimpses of fair Italy. Rogers
. Three Vassar girls in the Tyrol. any a broken link,In many a turn and traverse as it glides ;And oft above and oft below through its fairy course, go where it will,The torrent stops it not; the rugged rockOpens and lets it in ; and on it runs,Winning its easy way from clime to clime. But now t is passed,That turbulent chaos ; and the promised landLies at my feet in all its loveliness !To him who starts up from a terrible lo ! the sun is shining and the larkSinging aloud for joy, to him is notSuch sudden ravishment as now I feelAt the first glimpses of fair Italy. Rogers. ifc^.^JfflHE character of the scenery changed as by magicas they descended toward Italy. Not only wasthe vegetation more abundant on the southernslopes of the Alps, the walnut and the beech ap-pearing in the valleys in the place of the gloomypines, but the character of the architecture and ofthe people changed as well. Not for the better however. White stonehuts replaced the log chalets, gleaming picturesquely in the distance, 5. 66 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN THE TYROL. but dirty and squalid when seen near at hand. The people spokethe soft Italian language, smoked the long cigars of Turin insteadof the German pipe, and wore the costume of Piedmont; but theylacked the sturdy honesty of the German Swiss, and there was adash of the bandit in their wild appearance. The girls first stop was at Locarno on Lago Maggiore. It islike a scene in the theatre, Dorothy exclaimed with delight. The arches and over-hanging balconies are allready for Romeo and Juliet to rehearsetheir parts; the fruit and bright cos-tumes seem arranged to give touches ofcolor; even the dirt and rags of the beg-gars appear to be put on with an eye topicturesque effect. It is altogether ad-mirable. Then you would rather the beggars should be dirty and picturesque than clean and prosaic ? Elsie asked. Yes, indeed. One quite forgets that these superb creatures are suffering; and I fancy that a great deal of our sympathy
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