Lines[;] Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest

1. 1I stood on Brocken's[315:2] sovran height, and saw
2. 2Woods crowding upon woods, hills over hills,
3. 3A surging scene, and only limited
4. 4By the blue distance. Heavily my way
5. 5Downward I dragged through fir groves evermore,
6. 6Where bright green moss heaves in sepulchral forms
7. 7Speckled with sunshine; and, but seldom heard,
8. 8The sweet bird's song became a hollow sound;
9. 9And the breeze, murmuring indivisibly,
10. 10Preserved its solemn murmur most distinct
11. 11From many a note of many a waterfall,
12. 12And the brook's chatter; 'mid whose islet-stones
13. 13The dingy kidling with its tinkling bell
14. 14Leaped frolicsome, or old romantic goat
15. 15Sat, his white beard slow waving. I moved on
16. 16In low and languid mood:[315:3] for I had found
17. 17That outward forms, the loftiest, still receive
18. 18Their finer influence from the Life within;--
19. 19Fair cyphers else: fair, but of import vague
20. 20Or unconcerning, where the heart not finds
21. 21History or prophecy of friend, or child,
22. 22Or gentle maid, our first and early love,
23. 23Or father, or the venerable name
24. 24Of our adoréd country! O thou Queen,
25. 25Thou delegated Deity of Earth,
26. 26O dear, dear England! how my longing eye
27. 27Turned westward, shaping in the steady clouds
28. 28Thy sands and high white cliffs!

1. 29My native Land!
2. 30Filled with the thought of thee this heart was proud,
3. 31Yea, mine eye swam with tears: that all the view
4. 32From sovran Brocken, woods and woody hills,
5. 33Floated away, like a departing dream,
6. 34Feeble and dim! Stranger, these impulses
7. 35Blame thou not lightly; nor will I profane,
8. 36With hasty judgment or injurious doubt,
9. 37That man's sublimer spirit, who can feel
10. 38That God is everywhere! the God who framed
11. 39Mankind to be one mighty family,
12. 40Himself our Father, and the World our Home.