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"Poems. Volume III / H. F. Gould [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD5889.0003.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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THE SPIRIT AND THE MOUNTAIN.
MOUNTAIN, with thy firm old footFast beside the sea,What was in thy keeping put,Prisoned under thee?
"Hark, and hear the shuddering ground!Feel it rock and quake! Struggling fires, beneath me bound,Strive their chains to break."
Mountain, with a cloudy vestGirded o'er thy heart,Does it pierce thine aged breast,When its lightnings dart?
"No:—beneath me far, the crashOf the bolt is felt:Here, the fiery chain and flashBut adorn my belt."
Mountain, with a snowy crownStainless on thy brow,Wilt thou never cast it down—Never, never bow?
"When the mandate I shall hearFrom my Maker's throne,I will bow and disappear,Hence to be unknown."
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Mountain, holding proud and highThine old hoary head,What is written on the sky,Thou so long hast read?
"Brighter than the stars and sunShining over me,I behold the name of ONEThou must die to see!"
Mountain, bold thine eloquence—Glowing is thy speech;Mighty import flashes thence;What is it to teach?
"Thoughts of Him, before whose breathI shall melt away;While of thee, soul—spirit, deathNe'er shall quench a ray!"
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