<Dd> It whispers in the purling, silvery brooks . </Dd> <P> In a manner similar Coleridge's Kubla Khan, Hymn Before Sunrise describes a type of miraculous event in which singing rings out while mountain ice is melted by the sun . This draws a relationship between art and nature . In describing the sublime, Coleridge offers a contrast to the view held by Edmund Burke and William Wordsworth, which Coleridge described as a masculine presentation of the material in a matter - of - fact manner . Instead, Coleridge suggests a sublime through identifying with the matter . The joy that Coleridge experienced within the poem was not to last as the poems that followed over the next few years contained contrary feelings . </P> <P> Coleridge was introduced to Brun's poem by August 1800, when his friend Wordsworth relied on the work for the story The Seven Sisters . Besides the Brun source, there are other poems which are used within the work, including William Bowles's Coombe Ellen . In describing works about the mountains in general, Coleridge may have used other poems by Brun or a poem by Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg - Stolberg . There are also lines that are similar to those in John Milton's Comus and the Book of Exodus . </P> <P> Richard Holmes points out that the lines from Brun cause problems for Coleridge . In particular, "Even in the best passages, closest to his own observations, this foreign rhetoric weakens the borrowed verse by comparison with his own prose ." However, he continues, "The rhythms are powerful, but one looks in vain for the manic white bears, the prayer - wheels, or the falling angels . All have been suppressed ." On the relationship of the hymn to Brun's poem, Adam Sisman claims, "it was ominous that both the poem itself and the introductory note he added to the published version should falsely suggest first - hand experience . He was not being truthful to the public, and he was not being true to himself . Chamonix was a place that Wordsworth had seen, but Coleridge had not . He had lost his independent vision". </P>

Hymn before sunrise in the vale of chamouni summary