Final Post: Reflections on Coleridge's "Chamouny; The Hour Before Sunrise. A Hymn"

In Chamouny; The Hour Before Sunrise. A Hymn, Samuel Coleridge calling on God through nature. He asks himself to awake and then the mountains to join him in his calling of God. It is written, "Hand and voice,/ Awake, awake! And though, my heart, awake!/ Awake, ye rocks! Ye forest pines, awake!/ Green fields and icy cliffs, all join my hymn!" (Coleridge lines 23-26). He is calling on nature to worship God as he does. He refers to the mountain itself as his "co-herald" and asks that it "Wake, oh wake, and utter praise!" (line 33). He then asks several questions of who made the mountains and all of their glory, asking about its streams, the icy dens, jagged rocks, and in general, the mountain's very being.
Coleridge spends a great deal of time personifying the mountains. He gives them qualities of joy, fury, and strength (line 43). He asks who made these mountains, and who commanded them to be as they are. For this reason he personifies them, asking who allowed them to have these qualities. He refers to a mighty voice which is slightly confusing, because it is not entirely clear as to whether he thinks the mighty voice is God or nature. It is as if he wants to hear the mighty voice of nature, but he wants to hear it praise God for being created.
In the end of the poem Coleridge makes it fairly obvious that he wants all nature to sing with him in praise to God for creation. The last line of the poem, "Earth with her thousand voices calls on God!" (line 78) shows that he intends to praise God for Earth and nature-- but that he also wants nature to take part in praise for being created.