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 Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
 Eternal sunshine settles on its head.  
 Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
 Eternal sunshine settles on its head. 
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
 What is the voice of strange command
 Calling you still, as friend calls friend,
  With love that read more 
 What is the voice of strange command
 Calling you still, as friend calls friend,
  With love that cannot brook delay,
   To rise and follow the ways that wend
    Over the hills and far away. 
Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular
Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular
 Over the hills, and over the main,
 To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;
  The Queen commands, and we'll read more 
 Over the hills, and over the main,
 To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;
  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,
   Over the hills and far away. 
 The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought 
forth a mouse.  
 The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought 
forth a mouse. 
 Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
 We Sinais climb and know it not.  
 Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
 We Sinais climb and know it not. 
 That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;
 For who digs hills because they do aspire
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 That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;
 For who digs hills because they do aspire
  Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.