Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

   O thou, Parnassus! whom I now survey,
   Not in the frenzy of a dreamer’s eye,
   Not in the fabled landscape of a lay,
   But soaring snow-clad through thy native sky,
   In the wild pomp of mountain majesty! 
   What marvel if I thus essay to sing? 
   The humblest of thy pilgrims passing by
   Would gladly woo thine echoes with his string,
Though from thy heights no more one muse will wave her wing.