I am but——dumb."

The late Mr. Willis G. Clark thus expands the same sentiment:

"Here speaks the voice of God—let man be dumb,

Nor with his vain aspiring hither come.

That voice impels the hollow-sounding floods,

And like a Presence fills the distant woods.

These groaning rocks the Almighty's finger piled;

For ages here his painted bow has smiled,

Mocking the changes and the chance of time—

Eternal, beautiful, serene, sublime!"