Mountain heights, where wonders crowd,

Pinnacled in solemn cloud.

Andes, or the snowy scalps

Of the giant towering Alps!

Hills prolific, valley deeps,

Where the muse of silence sleeps;

Frowning cliff, and beetling rock,

Shivered by the deluge shock,

When the world was drowned—and now

Tottering before Ruin's plough.