From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, Forever shattered, and the same for ever? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam?


A Library of Poetry, Hymn, Before Sunrise In the Vale of Chamouni, l. 41-46, J.B. Ford & Company. 1874


From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, Forever shattered, and the same for ever? Who gave you your...

From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, Forever shattered, and the same for ever? Who gave you your...

From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, Forever shattered, and the same for ever? Who gave you your...

From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, Forever shattered, and the same for ever? Who gave you your...