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Some pow'r impart the spear and shield,

At which the wizard passions fly,

By which the giant follies die

COLLINS

Madame Cheron's house stood at a little distance froardens, in which E before breakfast Frohest part of them, was a wide view

over Languedoc On the distant horizon to the south, she discovered

the wild summits of the Pyrenees, and her fancy ireen pastures of Gascony at their feet Her heart pointed to her

peaceful hohbourhood where Valancourt here St

Aubert had been; and her iht that ho and romantic

beauty

She experienced an inexpressible pleasure in believing, that she

beheld the country around it, though no feature could be distinguished,

except the retiring chain of the Pyrenees; and, inattentive to the scene

iht of time, she continued to lean

on theof a pavilion, that terminated the terrace, with her eyes

fixed on Gascony, and herideas which

the view of it awakened, till a servant cahts thus recalled to the surrounding objects,