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...gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps,...fearful vent To the broad column which rolls on, and showi More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new...

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...gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Cruihing the cliffs, which downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful rent To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from...

...the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which downwards worn and rent, With his fierce footsteps, yield in...More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a NEW WORLD, than only thus to be Parent of rivers which flow gushingly...

...golf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent. In a subsequent stanza the allusion to the rainbow is a felicitous instance of the poet's skill and...

...rent I With tin gerce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent LXXI. To the broad column which roHs on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of л new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which (low...

...gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps,...More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly,...

...gulf, and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with deliriom bound , Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent. Byron. DELIRIUM. When the ideas excited in the mind do not correspond to the external objects, but...