The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General Readers.

by H. N. Hutchinson

COLUMNAR BASALT AT CLAMSHELL CAVE, STAFFA. From a Photograph by J. Valentine.

CHAPTER IX.
MOUNTAIN ARCHITECTURE.

The splendour falls on castle walls

And snowy summits old in story;

The long light shakes across the lakes,

And the wild cataract leaps in glory.

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying;

Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.