A clustered village bear; and then a church,
And pastures, stretching up to forests dark
Of gloomy firs. But far above,
Far above a waved sea of snow,
On two stupendous flanks of time-worn rock,
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Around which curl two living streams of ice,
A mountain rises, with one mighty leap,
Into the shimmering blue beyond; its crest,
Piercing through to purer air on high,
Grasps the blinding sunbeams from its peer
And flings them down below; the whole,
With jewelled crown of ice, a soaring shaft
Of crystallized eternity.
Eternity - But stay, - here comes a being,
Perhaps the guardian of this heavenly spot; -
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