BOURDILLON (F.W.).

Ode in Defence of the Matterhorn against the Proposed Railway to its Summit. With coloured frontispiece by J. Hardwicke Lewis.

London, William Rice. N.D. [1910] First edition. Original brown wrappers. 4to. pp. [4], 6. A keen climber and mountain-lover, Bourdillon took severely against the proposed railway. In religious imagery he extols the beauty and majesty of the mountain. In the penultimate verse he begs "Fair Switzerland" to awake and respond to the threat: "What gold could buy of thee that guarded treasure?/What proffered bribe for injury atone/To that immortal stone? Hast thou no wrath for these, who mine and measure/Thy noblet trust, God's altar of the morn/The matchless Matterhorn?" The frontispiece is tipped onto a stub. A fine copy. BL, NLS and National Library of Wales in COPAC.

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