Section 97. The Glaciers at Sunset. II

You⁠ 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 effect⁠ was solemn and spiritual above everything I have ever seen. These⁠ words, which⁠ had often been in my mind through the day, and⁠ 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 in⁠ heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether⁠ they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers⁠: all things were created by Him and for Him: and He is before⁠ all things, and by Him all things consist⁠ (Col. i. 16, 17).”—Mrs. Beecher Stowe.

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’.

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’.

Say ‘The following words’.

which — mind, die mir ... oft vor der Seele gestanden.

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.

in — earth, im Himmel und auf Erden.

whether they be, seien sie.

Gewalten.

is before = stands above.

bestehen, which place after ‘Him’.