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I. THE GLACIER.
At dawn in silence moves the mighty stream, / The silver-crested waves no murmur make; / But far away the avalanches wake / The rumbling echoes, dull as in a dream; / Their momentary thunders, dying, seem / To fall into the stillness, flake by flake, / And leave the hollow air with naught to break / The frozen spell of solitude supreme.