Composed 1799.--Published 1845
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ncluded among the "Poems of the Imagination."--Ed. --Brook and roadWere fellow-travellers in this gloomy Pass, [1]And with them did we journey several hoursAt a slow step. [2] The immeasurable heightOf woods decaying, never to be decayed, 5The stationary blasts of waterfalls,And in the narrow rent, at every turn,Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlorn,The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky,The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, 10Black drizzling crags that spake by the waysideAs if a voice were in them, the sick sightAnd giddy prospect of the raving stream,The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens,Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light--15Were all like workings of one mind, the featuresOf the same face, blossoms upon one tree,Characters of the great Apocalypse,The types and symbols of Eternity,Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. 20 * * * * *
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