And Jura answers from her misty shroud

Back to the joyous Alps who call on her aloud!

And this is in the night: most glorious night!

Thou wert not made for slumber!—let me be

A sharer in thy fierce and fair delight—

A portion of the tempest and of thee.

How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea,

And the big rain comes dancing to the earth!

And now again ’tis black—and now the glee

Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth,