Perilous in steep places,

Soft in the level races,

Where sweeping in phantom silence the cloudland flies;

With lovely undulation of fall and rise;

Entrenched with thickets thorned,

By delicate miniature dainty flowers adorned!

I climb your crown, and lo! a sight surprising

Of sea in front uprising, steep and wide:

And scattered ships ascending

To heaven, lost in the blending