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Book V. Canto Lvi. Mount Arishta

Canto Lvi: Mount Arishta.


He looked upon the burning waste,

Then sought the queen in joyous haste,

With words of hope consoled her heart,

And made him ready to depart.

p. 425

He sealed Arishta's glorious steep

Whose summits beetled o'er the deep.

The woods in varied beauty dressed

Hung like a garland round his crest,

And clouds of ever changing hue

A robe about his shoulders threw.

On him the rays of morning fell

To wake the hill they loved so well,

And bid unclose those splendid eyes

That glittered in his mineral dyes.

He woke to hear the music made

By thunders of the white cascade,

While every laughing rill that sprang

From crag to crag its carol sang.

For arms, he lifted to the stars

His towering stems of Deodrs,

And morning heard his pealing call

In tumbling brook and waterfall.

He trembled when his woods were pale

And bowed beneath the autumn gale,

And when his vocal reeds were stirred

His melancholy moan was heard.

Far down against the mountain's feet

The Vnar heard the wild waves beat;

Then turned his glances to the north.

Sprang from the peak and bounded forth,

The mountain felt the fearful shock

And trembled through his mass of rock.

The tallest trees were crushed and rent

And headlong to the valley sent,

And as the rocking shook each cave

Loud was the roar the lions gave.

Forth from the shaken cavern came

Fierce serpents with their tongues aflame;

And every Yaksha, wild with dread,

And Kinnar and Gandharva, fled.

Footnotes

424:1
The fire which is supposed to burn beneath the sea.

424:2
St is likened to the fire which is an emblem of purity.
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