The Mountain Height

Come with me, and climb the proud mountain’s brow, To view with high wonder the scene below, Where huge hills heave like a foaming sea By enchantment struck to tranquility.

Oh naught can depict to the mind’s deep sight The terrible view from a mountain height, As to fancy that ocean in awful storm Had been turned to stone, with each wave in form.

In vallies beneath, calm lakes glitter bright With radiant gleams of silvery light, As they sweetly lie mid fair woodland shores, Whence the purple peak of the mountain soars.

The hollow wind moans round these lofty rocks, Whence the waterfalls gush with echoing shocks, As they bound from their steeps with sparkling glee To sweep in bright streams to their parent sea.

Here slender blue bells, and the purple heath With flowery thyme, sweet fragrance breathe; And the rush, and the moss, and the short soft grass Spread a verdant pathway inviting to pass.

Oh! come let us climb the wild mountain brow, Where Solitude dwells mid the trickling flow Of rock-channelled rills, and desolate winds, And the strong winged eagle an eyrie finds.