Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Mont Blanc! on thee in reverent joy I gaze]
Mont Blanc! on thee in reverent joy I gaze;Lo! thy tri-forked head is gleaming now
As with a galaxy of crowns!—thy brow,
Thy most monarchic brow, in their bright blaze,
Is hid in uttermost splendour—O'er thee plays
The morn, whose chief rays to thy high crest flow.—
So sun with sun might commune, a proud Show!—
Earth seems in thee her towering head to raise!—
As the redeemed and glorified should do,
E'en to the Eternity of heaven above,
As with a mighty rapture ever new.—
Yes! Earth seeks Heaven in Mountains!—as with love
And trust and zeal.—And we—should we pursue
Our way care-bowed—the o'er-gazing hills reprove!
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