That made him; it was blessedness and love!

A Herdsman on the lonely mountain tops,

Such intercourse was his, and in this sort

Was his existence oftentimes possessed.

O then how beautiful, how bright, appeared

The written promise! Early had he learned[28]

To reverence the volume that[29] displays

The mystery, the life which cannot die;

But in the mountains did he feel his faith.

All things, responsive to the writing, there[30]