Hanging Rocks - Poetry

Poetry

Hanging Rocks was the inspiration of the poem "The Hanging Rocks" published in John C. Newman's The Harmonies of Creation or The Music of the Morning Stars: To Which are Added, Miscellaneous Poems, on Religious, Moral, and Patriotic Subjects in 1836.

GOD of nature! how tremendous

Does this mass of rocks appear?

How they hang–a work stupendous–

Balanc'd in the yielding air!

What detains them in their bases,

With the pond'rous part above?

Will they not start from their places?

See! their tops begin to move!

Be not frightened;–'tis the motion

Of the clouds beneath the sky;

They are trav'lling to the ocean,

Or to get a fresh supply.

They will bring a wat'ry treasure,

And the face of things renew;

Man, look on these scenes with pleasure;

Rocks and clouds were form'd for you!

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