Oh! if too much exulting in her dower,

My soul, not yet to lowly thought subdued,

Hath stood without thee on her hill of power—

A fearful and a dazzling solitude!

And therefore from that haughty summit’s crown

To dim desertion is by thee cast down;

Behold! thy child submissively hath bow’d—

Shine on him through the cloud!

Let the now darken’d earth and curtain’d heaven

Back to his vision with thy face be given!