The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . ellingMeet in the vale, and one majestic River,The breath and blood of distant lands, for everRolls its loud waters to the ocean waves,Breathes its swift vapours to the circling air. V. Mont Blanc yet gleams on high : — the power is still and solemn power of many many sounds, and much of life and death. 366 Mont Blanc In the calm darkness of the moonless nights,In the lone glare of day, the snows descendUpon that Mountain; none beholds them there,Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun,Or the star-beams dart through them
The complete works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... . ellingMeet in the vale, and one majestic River,The breath and blood of distant lands, for everRolls its loud waters to the ocean waves,Breathes its swift vapours to the circling air. V. Mont Blanc yet gleams on high : — the power is still and solemn power of many many sounds, and much of life and death. 366 Mont Blanc In the calm darkness of the moonless nights,In the lone glare of day, the snows descendUpon that Mountain; none beholds them there,Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun,Or the star-beams dart through them: — Winds contendSilently there, and heap the snow with breathRapid and strong, but silently ! Its homeThe voiceless lightning in these solitudesKeeps innocently, and like vapour broodsOver the snow. The secret strength of thingsWhich governs thought, and to the infinite domeOf heaven is as a law, inhabits thee!And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and to the human minds imaginingsSilence and solitude were vacancy ?July 23,
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