Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Thomas Beddoes was by profession a physician and anatomist, the son of the well-known physician, political radical, and scientific writer Dr. Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808), who befriended and treated Samuel

Alpine Spirit's Song

by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–49)

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O'er the snow, through the air, to the mountain,

With the antelope, with the eagle, ho!

With a bound, with a feathery row,

To the side of the icy fountain,

Where the gentians blue-belled blow.

Where the storm-sprite, the rain-drops counting,

Cowers under the bright rainbow,

Like a burst of midnight fire,

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