...het overdonderende, schier oneindige landschap van de Simplonpas in de Alpen tracht te verwoorden. The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to...turn, Winds thwarting winds bewildered and forlorn, (...) Werealllike(...) The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first and last, and midst, and without...

...'narrow chasm' of the Gondo Gorge. What follows is a marvellous set piece of descriptive sublimity: The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to...decayed, The stationary blasts of water-falls, And every where along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting...

...famous passage which I think employs a language of seeming and similitude for precisely this effect: The immeasurable height Of woods decaying, never to...decayed. The stationary blasts of waterfalls. And everywhere along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn. The torrents shooting...

...stationary blasts of waterfalls, And every where along the hollow rent Winds thwarting winds, bewilder'd and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that mutter'd close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As if a voice were in...

...chasm. Presently, he has a recognition of eternity in the form of endurance within a pattern of change: "The immeasurable height / of woods decaying, never...be decayed, / The stationary blasts of waterfalls" (219). For the romantic poet, this realization is characteristic of the ultimate form of the nature...