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with equal Raising and sinking of pinions In postures higher and higher Repeated Above the burden of earth Prevails the glory of soaring. Spirit voices are chanting the paths of grace, Like birds encircling their whilom nests, In magical gardens of enchantments, O mystical husbandman!

Hear ye the secret seething of blood? Simmer of ripening ferment Dazing the senses? Feverish chiming in darkness of hives? Grievous music of hearts, attuned by the ages like strings For starry harmony? Wailing of strings too tensely wound, rended apart? And scouring all worlds, the fiery cadence, Compassing seraphic harmony? Baffling remembrance of myriads in glorious embrace, Ere this visible cosmos blossomed with heavy splendour Amid infinities?