Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . OF THE THE NORTHERN WANDERER IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA. 281 aisles, In a cool dell, Oh wood, thou well of coolness, and so on, and so on. Thereis nothing but singing and praising of the murmur of leaves, and the gold-green shadowson velvet moss beside the bubbling stream; of wood-birds, and wandering Burschen on their travels, and of the harvest songs in vale and hill, in the cheerful village, or on thefruit-bordered country road. And the German character is expressed in all this, and lovesit, and cries How beautiful I Now with one stroke of fancys magic wand, t
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . OF THE THE NORTHERN WANDERER IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA. 281 aisles, In a cool dell, Oh wood, thou well of coolness, and so on, and so on. Thereis nothing but singing and praising of the murmur of leaves, and the gold-green shadowson velvet moss beside the bubbling stream; of wood-birds, and wandering Burschen on their travels, and of the harvest songs in vale and hill, in the cheerful village, or on thefruit-bordered country road. And the German character is expressed in all this, and lovesit, and cries How beautiful I Now with one stroke of fancys magic wand, take away all the woods, fields, and. PEASANTS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA. meadows, strip the mountains of their royal mantle, let the streams and rivulets be driedup in one night, and the cheerful, hospitable villages fall into dreary ruins ; let povertystalk in rags through the depopulated land, all sound of song and joyfulness die intosilence beneath the brazen sky, and thorns and thistles sprout from the soil,—then make ajourney through the so highly-praised Thuringia, and see what impression it makes onyou ! Try seriously to picture to yourself such a landscape ;—you certainly would notadmire it. And yet such—accurately such—is the Roman Campagna : or at all eventsthe portion of it which is understood by most persons under that name. And there isonly one difference to be noted,—certainly a very important and characteristic one,—andthat is the sky, the light, the atmosphere, of the Roman Campagna. A grey, cloudy,rainy sky would make such a disfigured German landscape as I have imagined, appear stillmore sad and
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