'Still, with those white-robed Shapes--a living Stream,
The glacier Pillars join in solemn guise.'
This Procession is a part of the sacramental service performed
once a month. In the valley of Engelberg we had the good fortune
to be present at the "Grand Festival" of the Virgin--but the
Procession on that day, though consisting of upwards of 1000
persons, assembled from all the branches of the sequestered
valley, was much less striking (notwithstanding the sublimity of
the surrounding scenery): it wanted both the simplicity of the
other and the accompaniment of the Glacier-columns, whose sisterly
resemblance to the 'moving' Figures gave it a most beautiful and
solemn peculiarity.