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SCENE I. The joy, the triumph, the delight, the madness! The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness, The vapourous exultation not to be confined! Ha! ha! the animation of delight Which wraps me, like an atmosphere of light, And bears me as a cloud is borne by its own wind.

Brother mine, calm wanderer, Happy globe of land and air, Some Spirit is darted like a beam from thee, Which penetrates my frozen frame, And passes with the warmth of flame, With love, and odour, and deep melody Through me, through me!

Ha! ha! the caverns of my hollow mountains, My cloven fire-crags, sound-exulting fountains Laugh with a vast and inextinguishable laughter. The oceans, and the desarts, and the abysses, And the deep air's unmeasured wildernesses, Answer from all their clouds and billows, echoing after.