The gathering of the waters at their sources;

Then quiet ensues and pure starlight and dark;

The region-spirit murmurs in meditation,

The heart replies in exaltation

And echoes faintly like an inland shell

Ghost tremors of the spell;

Thought reawakens and is linked again

With all the welter of the lives of men.

Here on the uplands where the air is clear

We think of life as of a stormy scene,—