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I. / / The Heavens rest upon thee that the eye / Of man may not, for when thou sittest hid / In thunderstorm of lofty pyramid / Of thwarting sea-cloud whitening up the sky, / Then are the clouds set on thee to forbid / [A]That man should share the mystery of Sinai; / Then are thy ashen cones again bestrid / By living fire -- impenetrably nigh.
For thus, by the Dualla, art thou seen, / Home of a God they know, yet would not know; / But I, who far above their doubts have been / Upon thy forehead hazardous, may grow / To fuller knowledge, rooted sure and slow / Where lava slid -- like pines Enceladine.