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Sweet as that soul-uplifting Hydromel

Idean Ganymede did give to Jove

In the God-kingdoms of Immortal Love—

Dipt from Heaven's everlasting Golden Well—

Was thy great song, celestial !

Like that Apollo near the shining portals

Of Heaven, in chariot, with celestial lyre,

Sung for the thronging glorified Immortals,

Which set the souls of all the gods on fire!

So sweet my soul, entranced, seemed suddenly brought

Before the star-crowned, blazing majesty

Of those great Sages of immortal thought,

And Poet-kings of deathless melody,

Who now shake Heaven with thunderous Jubilee.