Excerpt from The Art Journal, Vol. 12: January, 1873 Great prominence is given in this poem to that exquisite greenness of the banks of the Moselle, which must have struck every traveller that has visited it in the early summer. Again and again Ausonius speaks of these vineyards which rise now, as they rose then, in natural theatres up the sunny hillsides: and he gives an animated pic ture of the jokes which passed at vintage time between those who were engaged in gathering the grapes and the saucy foot passengers on the road below. The whole scene too is full of that human interest which has been named above as eminently characteristic of the course of a river. We have presented to us in lively succession theof mountain and meadow, of running water and calm sea, are well marked in the course of this short river. Its distinctive physical features and its natural history will, of course, come under review as we proceed. At present we may limit ourselves to the connection of our subject with Poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.