...helpless looks of blooming infancy: an oblique reference to Ada. S3 The castled crag of Drachenfels42 Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast...the vine, And hills all rich with blossomed trees, 500 And fields which promise corn and wine, And scattered cities crowning these, Whose far white walls...

...canto of "Childe Harold" which describes in such a graphic manner the stream they were then ascending:7 "The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters proudly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And...