The mist had left there. From the rugged crest

Slowly the last thin veils dissolved away.

I saw the Rock upstanding on the height

So closely, and so near me, that I knew

Its kinship with the rocks of Fontainebleau;

The sandstone whose red grains for many an age

Had been laid down, under a vanished sea;

A Rock, upthrust from darkness into light,

By buried powers, as power upthrust it now

In the strong soul, with those remembering hills,