There are beautiful notes, reminding one of Goethe, in his Unsterbliche Jüngling, Ode to a Mountain Torrent.
Immortal youth!
Thou streamest forth from rocky caves;
No mortal saw
The cradle of thy might,
No ear has heard
Thy infant stammering in the gushing Spring.
How lovely art thou in thy silver locks!
How dreadful thundering from the echoing crags!
At thy approach