Sweet Mountains - Ye tell Me no lie -
Never deny Me - Never fly -

She must have had the psalm in mind
Esa enai - I lift my eyes unto the hills
whence comes my help
but what lie is it that her mountains
unlike us mortals
can be trusted not to speak?

What seems clear
is that she felt the hills
her strong Madonnas
as she called them
no mere metaphor
rather a living presence
whose "unvarying eyes"
returned her gaze
with truth and constancy