Puts off the azure hues by distance given,

And slowly break upon the enamored sight

Ravine, crag, field, and wood, in colors true and bright.

Mount to the cloud-kissed summit! Far below

Spreads the vast champaign like a shoreless sea.

Mark yonder narrow streamlet feebly flow,

Like idle brook that creeps ingloriously!

Can that the lovely, lordly Hudson be,

Stealing by town and mountain? Who beholds

At break of day this scene, when silently