Blue mount on
The distant plain
Touching sky
And cloud the same
Rock of earth’s
Core beneath
Clothed with trees
And ice and heath
Crowned with stone
Basalt bear
Precipice shear
Boulders wear
Name unknown
Wellington no
Standing ages
Long-suffering so
Sleeping beauty
Hard since hot
Long dead silent
Waking not
Now echoing
An ancient time
Present pillar
The future climb
