I was the height of the high peaks...

The clouds caressed me with great gestures

and the wide love of misty spaces

clove to me, placid.

I felt the delightfulness of springs

born in my flanks, gifts of the glaciers;

and in the ample quietude of horizons

I felt the reposeful sleep of storms.

And when the sky opened about me

and the sun laughed on my green planes