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While in the rosy vale

Love breath'd his infant sighs, frouish free

Thoht's repose to pursue his

journey, set out in the , with his family and Valancourt, for

Rousillon, which he hoped to reach before night-fall The scenes,

through which they now passed, were as wild and romantic, as any they

had yet observed, with this difference, that beauty, every now and then,

softened the landscape into s

the ht verdure and flowers; or a pastoral

valley opened its grassy bosom in the shade of the cliffs, with flocks

and herds loitering along the banks of a rivulet, that refreshed it

with perpetual green St Aubert could not repent the having taken this

fatiguing road, though he was this day, also, frequently obliged to

alight, to walk along the rugged precipice, and to climb the steep and

flinty mountain

The wonderful sublimity and variety of the prospects

repaid him for all this, and the enthusiashtened his own, and awakened a rehtful emotions of his early days, when the sublireat pleasure in