A tour through the Pyrenees . THE LAKE OF GAUBE. Chap. IV. CAUTERETS. 29s emerald. The bald heads of the mountains aremirrored in it with a divine serenity. The slendercolumn of the pines is reflected there as clear as inthe air; in the distance, the woods clothed in bluishmist come down to bathe their feet in its coldwave, and the huge Vignemale, spotted with snow,shuts it about with her cliffs. At times a remnantof breeze comes to ruffle it, and all those grand. images undulate; the Greek Diana, the wild,maiden huntress, would have taken it for a mir-ror. How one sees her come to life aeain
A tour through the Pyrenees . THE LAKE OF GAUBE. Chap. IV. CAUTERETS. 29s emerald. The bald heads of the mountains aremirrored in it with a divine serenity. The slendercolumn of the pines is reflected there as clear as inthe air; in the distance, the woods clothed in bluishmist come down to bathe their feet in its coldwave, and the huge Vignemale, spotted with snow,shuts it about with her cliffs. At times a remnantof breeze comes to ruffle it, and all those grand. images undulate; the Greek Diana, the wild,maiden huntress, would have taken it for a mir-ror. How one sees her come to life aeain in such sites !Her marbles are fallen, her festivals have vanished ;but in the shivering of the firs, at the sound of thecracking glaciers, before the steely splendors of 296 THE VALLEY OF LUZ. Book III. these chaste waters, she reappears hke a the night long, in the outcries of the wind, theherdsmen could hear the baying of her houndsand the whistling of her arrows; the untamedchorus of her nymphs coursed over the precipices;the moon shone upon their shoulders of silver, andon the point of their lances. In the morning shecame to bathe her arms in the lake; and morethan once has she been seen standing upon a sum-mit, her eyes fixed, her brow severe ; her foot trodthe cruel snow, and her virgin breasts gleamed be-neath the winter sun. III. The Diana of the country is more amiable ; it isthe lively and gracious Margaret of Navarre, sisterand liber
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