Thou too, again, stupendous mountain! thou

That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low

In adoration, upward from thy base

Slow traveling with dim eyes suffused with tears,

Solemnly seemed, like a vapory cloud,

To rise before me—rise, O ever rise—

Rise like a cloud of incense from the earth!

Thou kingly spirit, throned among the hills,

Thou dread ambassador from earth to heaven,

Great hierarch! tell thou the silent sky,