Awe-full

For some moments they stand simply dumb, every one of them, with sheer wonder and amazement. It is probably the weirdest, the most actually awe-full place on earth.

There is terror here on Tandy’s equator, terror and sublimity. The most awe-full place in the universe. Where vacuum and atmosphere kiss: and the kiss is a kiss of death!

We did find a matching dim, voices-held-below-a-whisper awe-full hush in its natural silence: birds held their song in the birdfooted branches; acorns refused to drop through the squirrelless shadows.

Comparatively few dwell where he dwelt. It is an “awe-full” place. Isaiah expressed this vividly in Isaiah 33:14: / Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

O God, that mercy, whose majestic brow / Should be unwrinkled, and that awe-full justice, / Which looketh through a veil of sufferance / Upon the frailty of the multitude, / Should with the clamours of outrageous wrongs / Be stirred and wakened thus to punishment!