TCD MS 10515 folio 79 verso
[May 10th 1916]
he is here subdued, not by the wonders that his senses show him, but rather by the perception of the narrow confines of these senses, of their complete inability to comprehend the infinity of the scene. It is the limitless immensity, the silent solitude, the merciless display of light that overwhelm him; these are the powerful impressions which he struggles to grasp but before which his mind his humbled. The summits of the mountains and the bosom of the ocean are recalled to thought, for it is only in the great wastes of land or water that the eye can gaze upon the imposing spectacle of a boundless horizon. It is strange that an unobstructed view should be so solemn, that the junction of sky and land in a defined line should inspire more reverent