The Watcher + 

From out a windy cleft there comes a gaze + 

Of eyes unearthly, which go to and fro + 

Upon the people’s tumult, for below + 

The nations smite each other: no amaze + 

Troubles their liquid rolling, or affrays + 

Their deep-set contemplation; steadily glow + 

Those ever holier eyeballs, for they grow + 

Liker unto the eyes of one that prays. + 

And if those clasped hands tremble, comes a power + 

As of the might of worlds, and they are holden + 

Blessing above us in the sunrise golden; + 

And they will be uplifted till that hour + 

Of terrible rolling which shall rise and shake + 

This conscious nightmare from us, and we wake. + 