A THOUGHT

SUGGESTED BY A VIEW OF
SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND

On stern Blencartha's perilous height

　The winds are tyrannous and strong;

And flashing forth unsteady light

From stern Blencartha's skiey height,

　As loud the torrents throng!

　Beneath the moon, in gentle weather,

　They bind the earth and sky together.

But oh! the sky and all its forms, how quiet!—

The things that seek the earth, how full of noise and riot!

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