Excerpt from Cape Carols: And Miscellaneous Verses The voice of many waters nearer swells Till N ature seems to hold her breath in fear. Still on the track of my unconscious guides I clear at length the chilling forest shade And climb a rising ground, when all at once, Old Afric's grand primeval marvel starts In majesty appalling on the sight. Rapt. Dazed, and faint, I sink upon the turf The heart's full tide responds in labouring throbs To the torrent's undistinguishable roar While humbled thought can only eddy round The ...
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Excerpt from Cape Carols: And Miscellaneous Verses The voice of many waters nearer swells Till N ature seems to hold her breath in fear. Still on the track of my unconscious guides I clear at length the chilling forest shade And climb a rising ground, when all at once, Old Afric's grand primeval marvel starts In majesty appalling on the sight. Rapt. Dazed, and faint, I sink upon the turf The heart's full tide responds in labouring throbs To the torrent's undistinguishable roar While humbled thought can only eddy round The deprecating cry, Lord what is man That Thou of him shouldst ever mindful be? And yet methinks these fearless flowers that raise Their heads around the spot on which I sit, Proclaim alike His mindfulness and love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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