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"A young star! which shone / O'er life -- too sweet an image, for such glass! / A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded; / A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. "
The Mississippi! How, as by an enchanted wand, have its scenes been changed, since Chateaubriand wrote his prose-poetic description of it, as a river of mighty, unbroken solitudes, rolling amid undreamed wonders of vegetable and animal existence.