Note 379:1 — HYMN BEFORE SUN-RISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI[376:2]
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The Gentiana major grows in large companies a stride's distance from the foot of several of the glaciers. Its blue flower, the colour of Hope: is it not a pretty emblem of Hope creeping onward even to the edge of the grave, to the very verge of utter desolation? Note to MS. A.