Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1804/An Essay in Quantity

by Thomas Alexander Lacey

AN ESSAY IN QUANTITY.

Lo! the day, dawning with a rosy brightness,
Leaps to each mountain over all the valleys,
While the grey twilight, vanishing before it,
Clings to the lowlands;
Where the hoarse tumult of an angry torrent,
Lonely in silence as of old eternal,
Roars a rough nocturn, ever in the darkness
Thundering onward, —
Like a forlorn soul that a gloomy passion
Urges, and dark mists gather all around him, —
But the high mountains, if he gaze upon them,
Glow with the sunlight.

Spectator.T. A. Lacey.