Steadfast + 

Here stands a giant stone from whose far top + 

Comes down the sounding water: let me gaze + 

Till every sense of man and human ways + 

Is wrecked and quenched for ever, and I drop + 

Into the whirl of time, and without stop + 

Pass downward thus! Again my eyes I raise + 

To thee, dark rock; and through the mist and haze + 

My strength returns when I behold thy prop + 

Gleam stern and steady through the wavering wrack. + 

Surely thy strength is human, and like me + 

Thou bearest loads of thunder on thy back! + 

And, lo, a smile upon thy visage black⁠— + 

A breezy tuft of grass which I can see + 

Waving serenely from a sunlit crack! + 