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At summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bowSpans with bright arch the glittering hills below,Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye,Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky?Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appearMore sweet than all the landscape smiling near?—'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,And robes the mountain in its azure hue.Thus, with delight, we linger to surveyThe promised joys of life's unmeasured way;