With rapture we the golden view embrace:

Then worshiping the sun on silver floods,

And blazing towers, and spires, and cities bright

With his reflected beams; and down the slopes

The tumbling torrents; from the forest-mass

Of darkness issuing, we with double force

Along the gayly-checker’d landscape pass,

And, bounding with delight, pursue our course.

It is a mingled rapture, and we find

The bodily spirit mounting to the mind.