To follow still and still in his career!
Upborne on evening’s quenchless beams to greet
The noiseless world illumined at my feet,
Each peaceful vale, each crimson-flaming peak,
Each silver rill whose tinkling waters seek
The golden flood that feeds the fruitful plain.
Then savage crags, and gorges dark, would rein
My proud careering course in vain;
Ev’n now the sea spreads out its shimmering bays,
And charms the sense with ecstasy of gaze.