Section 97 The Glaciers at Sunset. — II
You1 did not lose your idea of the dazzling, spiritual whiteness of the snow; yet you seemed to see it through a rosy veil, the sharp edges of the glaciers and the hollows between the peaks reflecting wavering tints of lilac and purple. The effect2 was solemn and spiritual above everything I have ever seen. These3 words, which4 had often been in my mind through the day, and5 which occurred more often than any others while I was travelling through the Alps, came into my mind with a pomp and magnificence of meaning unknown before:—“For by (durch) Him were all things created that are in6 heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether7 they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers8: all things were created by Him and for Him: and He is before9 all things, and by Him all things consist10 (Col. i. 16, 17).”—Mrs. Beecher Stowe.
Notes
1 Say ‘The idea (Bild, n.) of the dazzling, spiritual (geisterhaft) whiteness of the snow lost itself not; it seemed, however, as if one saw it (als sähe man es) through a rosy veil, whilst the sharp edges (Zacke, f.) of the glaciers and the hollows (Vertiefung, f.) between the peaks were beaming (erstrahlen) in wavering (unbestimmt) colours of lilac and purple’.
2 Say ‘The impression (Eindruck, m.) of it (S. 4, N. 5, B) surpassed in (an) solemnity and sublimity everything (alles, S. 3, N. 7) that I had (App. § 22) ever seen’.
3 Say ‘The following words’.
4 which — mind, die mir... oft vor der Seele gestanden.
5 and — before = and of (an) which I was most reminded during my Alpine journey (Alpenreise), revealed themselves only (erst) now to my mind in their whole splendour and magnificence.
6 in — earth, im Himmel und auf Erden.
7 whether they be, seien sie.
8 Gewalten.
9 is before = stands above.
10 bestehen, which place after ‘Him’.