...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset - flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse....

...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the clifi* to fall and pause nnd full did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolliug a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From thejnner land:...

...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem.! A land of streams ! some like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumberous sheet of foam below. Again, we have...

...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-fiush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The...

...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream. Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunsct-flush'd; and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The...

...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset -flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. The...

...And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...land : far off, three mountain-tops, Three silent pinnailes of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd : and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy...

...lAnd like a downward smoke, the slender stream {Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke. Slow-dropping...below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the/inner land : .far off, three mountain-tops, '' ' Stood sunset-flush'd : and, "deWfr with showery...

...natural images to achieve a dream landscape is again characteristic. The details are often well observed: A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd: . . . There are Keatsian echoes ("Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease"), but Tennyson's...

...but in intense colours and strong vivid forms. The heir of Keats liked the softer charm, and sang : A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping...and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.33 Browning preferred a complex vigour not unlike his own : And no ignoble presence! On the bulge...