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| 1 | 1 | Some say that | Some say that gleams of a remoter world |
| 2 | 2 | Visit the soul in sleep, that death is slumber, | |
| 3 | 3 | And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber | |
| 4 | 4 | th | Of those who wake and live. — I look on high; |
| 5 | 5 | Has some unknown omnipotence | Has some unknown omnipotence unfurl'd |
| 6 | 6 | The veil of life and death? or do I lie | |
| 7 | 7 | In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep | |
| 8 | 8 | Spread far around and inaccessibly | |
| 9 | 9 | Its circles? For the very spirit fails, | |
| 10 | 10 | Driven like a homeless cloud from steep to steep | |
| 11 | That vanishes among the viewless gales! | ||
| 12 | Far, far above, piercing the infinite sky, | ||
| 13 | Mont Blanc appears — still, snowy, and serene; | ||
| 14 | Its subject mountains their unearthly forms | ||
| 15 | Pile around it, ice and rock; broad vales between | ||
| 16 | Of frozen floods, unfathomable deeps, | ||
| 17 | Blue as the overhanging heaven, that spread | ||
| 18 | And wind among the accumulated steeps; | ||
| 19 | A desert peopled by the storms alone, | ||
| 20 | Save when the eagle brings some hunter's bone, | ||
| 21 | And the wolf tracks her there—how hideously | ||
| 22 | Its shapes are heap'd around! rude, bare, and high, | ||
| 23 | Ghastly, and scarr'd, and riven.—Is this the scene | ||
| 24 | Where the old Earthquake-daemon taught her young | ||
| 25 | Ruin? Were these their toys? or did a sea | ||
| 26 | Of fire envelop once this silent snow? | ||
| 27 | None can reply — all seems eternal now. | ||
| 28 | The wilderness has a mysterious tongue | ||
| 29 | Which teaches awful doubt, or faith so mild, | ||
| 30 | So solemn, so serene, that man may be, | ||
| 31 | But for such faith, with Nature reconcil'd; | ||
| 32 | Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal | ||
| 33 | Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood | ||
| 34 | By all, but which the wise, and great, and good | ||
| 35 | Interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel. |
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