7THE DOWNSO bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely;O still solitude, only matched in the skies:Perilous in steep places,Soft in the level races,Where sweeping in phantom silence the cloudland flies;With lovely undulation of fall and rise;Entrenched with thickets thorned,By delicate miniature dainty flowers adorned!I climb your crown, and lo! a sight surprisingOf sea in front uprising, steep and wide:And scattered ships ascendingTo heaven, lost in the blendingOf distant blues, where water and sky divide,Urging their engines against wind and tide,And all so small and slowThey seem to be wearily pointing the way they would go.The accumulated murmur of soft plashing,Of waves on rocks dashing and searching the sands,Takes my ear, in the veeringBaffled wind, as rearingUpright at the cliff, to the gullies and rifts he stands;And his conquering surges scour out over the lands;While again at the foot of the downsHe masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.
7THE DOWNSO bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely;O still solitude, only matched in the skies:Perilous in steep places,Soft in the level races,Where sweeping in phantom silence the cloudland flies;With lovely undulation of fall and rise;Entrenched with thickets thorned,By delicate miniature dainty flowers adorned!I climb your crown, and lo! a sight surprisingOf sea in front uprising, steep and wide:And scattered ships ascendingTo heaven, lost in the blendingOf distant blues, where water and sky divide,Urging their engines against wind and tide,And all so small and slowThey seem to be wearily pointing the way they would go.The accumulated murmur of soft plashing,Of waves on rocks dashing and searching the sands,Takes my ear, in the veeringBaffled wind, as rearingUpright at the cliff, to the gullies and rifts he stands;And his conquering surges scour out over the lands;While again at the foot of the downsHe masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.
O bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely;O still solitude, only matched in the skies:Perilous in steep places,Soft in the level races,Where sweeping in phantom silence the cloudland flies;With lovely undulation of fall and rise;Entrenched with thickets thorned,By delicate miniature dainty flowers adorned!I climb your crown, and lo! a sight surprisingOf sea in front uprising, steep and wide:And scattered ships ascendingTo heaven, lost in the blendingOf distant blues, where water and sky divide,Urging their engines against wind and tide,And all so small and slowThey seem to be wearily pointing the way they would go.The accumulated murmur of soft plashing,Of waves on rocks dashing and searching the sands,Takes my ear, in the veeringBaffled wind, as rearingUpright at the cliff, to the gullies and rifts he stands;And his conquering surges scour out over the lands;While again at the foot of the downsHe masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.
O bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely;O still solitude, only matched in the skies:Perilous in steep places,Soft in the level races,Where sweeping in phantom silence the cloudland flies;With lovely undulation of fall and rise;Entrenched with thickets thorned,By delicate miniature dainty flowers adorned!I climb your crown, and lo! a sight surprisingOf sea in front uprising, steep and wide:And scattered ships ascendingTo heaven, lost in the blendingOf distant blues, where water and sky divide,Urging their engines against wind and tide,And all so small and slowThey seem to be wearily pointing the way they would go.The accumulated murmur of soft plashing,Of waves on rocks dashing and searching the sands,Takes my ear, in the veeringBaffled wind, as rearingUpright at the cliff, to the gullies and rifts he stands;And his conquering surges scour out over the lands;While again at the foot of the downsHe masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.
O bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely;O still solitude, only matched in the skies:Perilous in steep places,Soft in the level races,Where sweeping in phantom silence the cloudland flies;With lovely undulation of fall and rise;Entrenched with thickets thorned,By delicate miniature dainty flowers adorned!
O bold majestic downs, smooth, fair and lonely;
O still solitude, only matched in the skies:
Perilous in steep places,
Soft in the level races,
Where sweeping in phantom silence the cloudland flies;
With lovely undulation of fall and rise;
Entrenched with thickets thorned,
By delicate miniature dainty flowers adorned!
I climb your crown, and lo! a sight surprisingOf sea in front uprising, steep and wide:And scattered ships ascendingTo heaven, lost in the blendingOf distant blues, where water and sky divide,Urging their engines against wind and tide,And all so small and slowThey seem to be wearily pointing the way they would go.
I climb your crown, and lo! a sight surprising
Of sea in front uprising, steep and wide:
And scattered ships ascending
To heaven, lost in the blending
Of distant blues, where water and sky divide,
Urging their engines against wind and tide,
And all so small and slow
They seem to be wearily pointing the way they would go.
The accumulated murmur of soft plashing,Of waves on rocks dashing and searching the sands,Takes my ear, in the veeringBaffled wind, as rearingUpright at the cliff, to the gullies and rifts he stands;And his conquering surges scour out over the lands;While again at the foot of the downsHe masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.
The accumulated murmur of soft plashing,
Of waves on rocks dashing and searching the sands,
Takes my ear, in the veering
Baffled wind, as rearing
Upright at the cliff, to the gullies and rifts he stands;
And his conquering surges scour out over the lands;
While again at the foot of the downs
He masses his strength to recover the topmost crowns.