James Sheridan Knowles

“ How high you lift your heads into the sky!
How huge you are! how mighty, and how free!
Ye are the things that tower, that shine—whose smile
Makes glad—whose frown is terrible—whose forms,
Robed or unrobed, do all the impress wear
Of awe divine. ”

“ To walk these hills, and look up to my God,
And bless him that it was so. It was free—
From end to end, from cliff to lake ’twas free!
Free as our torrents are that leap our rocks,
And plough our valleys, without asking leave ”