Then, there is a fine passage in verse x.

where he describes the loosening of a thick bed of snow from the mountain-side[4]--an occurrence which also drew the interest on Shelley in the _Prometheus_--which illustrates what I have said of Browning's conception of the separate life, as of giant Titans, of the vaster things in Nature.

The mountain is alive and lives his life with his own grim joy, and wears his snow like a breastplate, and discharges it when it pleases him.

It is only David who thinks that the great creature lives to guard us from the tempests.

And Hebron, high on its crested hill, lifts itself out of the morning mist in the same giant fashion, For I wake in the grey dewy covert, while Hebron upheaves The dawn struggling with night on his shoulder, and Kidron retrieves Slow the damage of yesterday's sunshine.
Then, at the end of the poem, Browning represents all Nature as full of emotion, as gathered into a fuller life, by David's prophecy of the coming of immortal Love in Christ to man.