Into the depths of clouds, that vail thy breast;

Thou too again, stupendous mountain! thou,

That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low

In adoration, upward from thy base

Slow traveling with dim eyes suffused with tears,

Solemnly seemest, like a vapory cloud,

To rise before me,—Rise, oh ever rise!

Rise, like a cloud of incense, from the earth!

Thou kingly spirit throned among the hills,

Thou dread embassador from Earth to Heaven,