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VIEW FROM THE TOP OF

BLACK COMB.

Height a ministering Angel might select:

For from the summit of (dread name

Derived from clouds and storms!) the amplest range

Of unobstructed prospect may be seen

That British ground commands:—low dusky tracts,

Where Trent is nursed, far southward! Cambrian Hills

To the south-west, a multitudinous show;

And, in a line of eye-sight linked with these,

The hoary Peaks of Scotland that give birth

To Tiviot's Stream, to Annan, Tweed, and Clyde;—

Crowding the quarter whence the sun comes forth

Gigantic Mountains rough with crags; beneath,

Right at the imperial Station's western base,

Main Ocean, breaking audibly, and stretched

Far into silent regions blue and pale;—

And visibly engirding Mona's Isle