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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