SONG OF THE CHILDREN ABOUT SPRING. 
Into hugest craggy phantoms drifted, 
Crashing together borne. 
Deep green all below, and in glinting white, 
Where clear peaks climb the skies. 
They topple and clang in a loud vast fight, 
Meet for a demon's eyes. 
V. 
Above this wild motion he broodeth and sails. 
Makes the air dun with his wings, 
Then rocks on the Kraken or stuns the Karwhales 
With the ice-spear that he flings. 
He loveth such delicate sports as these, 
A hunter of monsters he, 
I ween he rouseth those ice-mountained seas 
To thunder and leap t' his glee, 
Till they heave at the stars their lance-keen tops. 
While the lashed chase passeth by, 
Then lo I every burnish'd pinnacle drops 
To crash down the steeps from on high I 
Very rude are the points and angles there ; 
As he flaps between the crags 
They topple and roll so much that they tear 
His smooth pinions on the jags. 
You may know when the nice sleet-polished plumes 
Of a prim old Boy like he 
Have been torn, how churlish vanity fumes 
That other things nice should be ; 
For e'en the monsters gaping spout and jeer 
That he looketh so dismally. 
So he whirls him in great wrath up the air, 
With his Fiend- Winds thronged behind, 
