William Haygarth, Greece, A Poem in Three Parts, 1814. The Pindus Mountains and the Sublime

From the poem Greece, A Poem in Three Parts, by William Haygarth, 1814

Partly written in 1811

Summit of Mount Pindus

With what impatience do I spring to thee,  

Eternal Nature; how I love to steal 

From the rude jar and clamour of the world 

To thy retirement, where I may compose 

My ruffled brow, and lay my limbs secure, 

And listen to the blast which howls afar. 

O let me seek thy haunts upon the brow

Of Pindus, where thou dwell'st midst solitudes

Of stern sublimity: with slow, slow step.

Painfully press'd upon th' unyielding rock,

I scale its rugged steeps....there the pine

Stretches his giant limbs, scorch'd by the fires

Of Heav'n, and stands to guard yon narrow pass,

An aged warrior, cover'd o'er with wounds,

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