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Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all / The little lesser hills which compass thee, / Thou standest, bright with April's buoyancy, / Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall / Of stern, steep rock; and startled by the call / Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy / And cast a cloud of crimson, silently, / Above thy snowy crevices where fall / Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath / Melts at their phantom touch. Another year / Is quick with import. Such each year has been.
Unmoved thou watchest all, and all bequeath / Some jewel to thy diadem of power, / Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.