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From many a cave, the Alpine Echo's hall, On their bold way victoriously were sweeping, Link'd in majestic anthems; while through all That billowy swell and fall, Voices, like ringing crystal, fill'd the air With inarticulate melody, that stirr'd   My being's core; then, moulding into word Their piercing sweetness, bade me rise and bear In that great choral strain my trembling part Of tones, by Love and Faith struck from a human heart.

Return no more, vain bodings of the night! A happier oracle within my soul Hath swell'd to power;—a clear unwavering light Mounts through the battling clouds that round me roll, And to a new control Nature's full harp gives forth rejoicing tones, Wherein my glad sense owns