Clues to the darker Book of Nature’s law;

For, when he climbed, a goat-foot boy, in Spring

Up through the savage Hissar range, he saw

A hundred gorges thundering at his feet

With snow-fed cataracts; torrents whose fierce flight

Uprooted forests, tore great boulders down,

Ground the huge rocks together; and every year

Channelled raw gullies and swept old scars away;

So that the wildered eagle beating up

To seek his last year’s eyry, found that all