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87 Whose yet more rich and more exulting strain

Floats in its wondrous harmony around,

Rapid and changeful; varying in its tone,

Even as Flowers vary in their hue—

Each to the rest unlike, yet all her own.

Oh! they are Summer queens, the wondrous two,

The bird on earth, the fair moon in the sky;

Seems it as each from other magic drew:

The night grows brighter with that music nigh,

Whose thrilling tones are lit upon their way

Into our inmost spirit, by the soft

And harmonizing gleam of each clear ray,

Falling in smiling lustre from aloft,

And showing where the lilies lie asleep

Beneath their floating canopy.