With golden pinnacles and snowy mountains,

And billows purpler than the ocean's, making

In heaven a glorious mockery of the earth,

So like, we almost deem it permanent;

So fleeting, we can scarcely call it aught

Beyond a vision, 'tis so transiently

Scatter'd along the eternal vault; and yet

It dwells upon the soul, and sooths the soul,

And blends itself into the soul, until

Sunrise and sunset form the haunted epoch