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And then wait yet for one hour, until the east again becomes purple, and the heaving mountains, rolling against it in darkness, like waves of a wild sea, are drowned one by one in the glory of its burning; watch the white glaciers blaze in their winding paths about the mountains, like mighty serpents with scales of fire; watch the columnar peaks of solitary snow, kindling downwards chasm by chasm, each in itself a new morning their long avalanches cast down in keen streams brighter than the lightning, sending each his tribute of driven snow, like altar-smoke, up to heaven; the rose-light of their silent domes flushing that heaven about them, and above them, piercing with purer light through its purple lines of lifted cloud, casting a new glory on every wreath, as it passes by, until the whole heaven, one scarlet canopy, is interwoven with a roof of waving flame, and tossing vault beyond vault, as with the drifted wings of many companies of angels; and then, when you can look no more for gladness, and when you are bowed down with fear and love of the Maker and Doer of this, tell me who has best delivered this His message unto men!
But the vehement and awful passion which belongs to manhood when thoroughly unmanned this was the first time in which the relief of that stormy bitterness was known to him! "Musing full sadly in his sullen mind." "There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." /Ibid. on Superstition/.
Some already wished that the altar-smoke could cover the deed from the sight of Heaven. But one of the rangers a man of sanctified aspect, though his hands were bloody approached the captain. "Sir," said he, "our village meeting-house lacks a bell, and hitherto we have been fain to summon the good people to worship by beat of drum.
But the vehement and awful passion which belongs to manhood when thoroughly unmanned this was the first time in which the relief of that stormy bitterness was known to him! "Musing full sadly in his sullen mind." "There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." Ibid. on Superstition.
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