One song they sang, and it was audible,
Most audible, then, when the fleshly ear,
O’ercome by humblest prelude of that strain,
Forgot her functions and slept undisturbed.”
No less wonderful is his sense of the delicate motions of nature, the visible transition of form and outline. How exquisite is the description of a high-poising summer-cloud,
“That heareth not the loud winds when they call;
And moveth all together, if it move at all.”
He sees the hazy ridges of the mountains like a golden ladder,
“Climbing suffused with sunny air