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Rousseau-Voltaire-our Gibbon-De Staël-Leman! these names are worthy of thy shore, / Thy shore of names like these! wert thou no more, / Their memory thy remembrance would recall: / To them thy banks were lovely as to all, / But they have made them lovelier, for the lore / Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core / Of human hearts the ruin of a wall / Where dwelt the wise and wondrous; but by thee / How much more, / Lake of Beauty! do we feel, / In sweetly gliding o'er thy crystal sea, / The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal, / Which of the heirs of immortality / Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real!