Studentenalmanak 1913 - pagina 182

168 FARRAGO

Finally will the pedestrians, namely a middle-aged or

elderly man, or especially a young lady, a little older than

a backfish, sixteen or seventeen years of age (who-happily-

does not know any weariness), — particularly these persons

will find the ascent of the greater part of the downs a bit stiff.

But, once up, what a panorama is unfolded!

Not, as in the »Harz«, bleak, bare mountain-heights;

no!, a succession of smiling, pretty valleys, overgrown with

thick, thorny bush. And everywhere is the land of irregular

rhomboidal form, surrounded by the waves of S o l e n t and

the open S e a , which beat and dash against thousands of

rocks and stones.

T h e shores of the Island are deeply indented by

B a y s : A l u m B a y , celebrated for the colored sands of

its cHffs, red stone, cobalt blue, and chalk-white; F r e s h -

w a t e r B a y , with its caverns and isolated rocks, and

S a n d o w n B a y , with its majestic strand.

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In this quiet retreat has lived one of Englands great

poets, T e n n y s o n , whose residence at F r e s h w a t e r has

made famous this little Isle, as S i r W a l t e r S c o t t s the

Highlands, and t o d a y H a l l C a i n e j t h e Isle of Man. "*

T h e P o e t L a u r e a t e , of whom all England is proud,

though not a native of the soil, loved it »with a native's

passion c, for listen only to his well known invitation to

M a u r i c e (after he {M.) had been expelled trom his

professorship), to come and see him

»Where, far from noise and smoke of town,

I watch the twilight falling brown.

All round a careless-order'd garden.

Close to the ridge of a noble down.«

It is very pleasant, indeed, to see the spot, where

such a great man as T e n n y s o n has lived in former

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