Yet, being sobered now, what is it you ask

By way of explanation? There 's the fact!

It seems to fill the universe with sight

And sound,—from the four corners of this earth

Tells itself over, to my sense at least.

But you may want it lower set i' the scale,—

Too vast, too close it clangs in the ear, perhaps;

You 'd stand back just to comprehend it more.

Well then, let me, the hollow rock, condense

The voice o' the sea and wind, interpret you