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 All life's discords sweetly blending, Heights on heights of being ascending,
 * Harmonies of confluent sound
 * Lift you at one rhythmic bound
 * From the thraldom of the ground;

Loosen all your bonds of birth, Clogs of sense and weights of earth.
 * Bear you in angelic legions
 * High above terrestrial regions

Into ampler ether, where Spirits breathe a finer air,
 * Where upon world altitudes
 * God-intoxicated moods
 * Fill you with beatitudes;

Till no longer cramped and bound By the narrow human round.
 * All the body's barriers slide.
 * Which with cold obstruction hide

The supreme, undying, sole Spirit struggling through the whole,