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?
- Balanc'd in the yielding air!
- With the pond'rous part above?
- See! their tops begin to move!
- Of the clouds beneath the sky;
- Or to get a fresh supply.
- And the face of things renew;
- Rocks and clouds were form'd for you!
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