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Rh Divinely thrilled was the man, exultingly full,
 * As quick well-waters that come of the heart of earth,

Ere yet they dart in a brook are one bubble-pool
 * To light and sound, wedding both at the leap of birth.

The soul of light vivid shone, a stream within stream;
 * The soul of sound from a musical shell outflew;

Where others hear but a hum and see but a beam,
 * The tongue and eye of the fountain of life he knew.

He knew the Hours: they were round him, laden with seed
 * Of hours bestrewn upon vapour, and one by one

They winged as ripened in fruit the burden decreed
 * For each to scatter; they flushed like the buds in sun,

Bequeathing seed to successive similar rings,
 * Their sisters, bearers to men of what men have earned:

He knew them, talked with the yet unreddened; the stings,
 * The sweets, they warmed at their bosoms divined, discerned.