...Byron describes a nocturnal storm in the Alps with a glee not matched until Tyndall: "Far along, / From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, / Leaps the live thunder!" (lines 863-5). The deistic "let me quit man's works, again to read / His Maker's spread around me"...

...are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! (ra, 92) 'The joyous Alps' echo it. When thunder-bolts flash and forked lightnings — 'the most terrible...

...are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps...shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud! (CHP, In.92) 'Earth-born jars, / And human frailties' are 'forgotten quite' as the creative imagination...

...are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps...shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud! And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be 870 mount...

...are wondrous strong Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the...mountain now hath found a tongue And Jura answers thro' her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps who call to her aloud. And this is in the night! Most...