Strona 163 z 483

In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts

over which it had brooded for the last month. I retired to rest

at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by

the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during

the day. They congregated round me; the unstained snowy

mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged

bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds-they all

gathered round me and bade me be at peace.