Katharine Lee Bates - First View of Mount Blanc lyrics

From dim aerial depths, a silver light Stole forth, and formed, and soared against the sky, A domelike summit, gloriously bright, The adoration of the gazing eye, Mont Blanc. O beautiful beyond all dream, That thou for our great longing shouldst put by Thy curtains woven soft with mist, and gleam In such a splendor! Queen of Air, are those Lustres miraculously white, supreme In sparkling radiance on the blue repose Of heaven, thy diamond-crusted veils, thy frore, Virginal vesture of eternal snows? We have beheld the vision. Evermore Must our poor life be nobler than before.