O beaten and blind
In the light of my face!
Heaven thunders behind,
Hell shakes for a space,
As I fling the loud sound to the sky, and the vaults of
the Earth give place.
O mystical tune
Of a magic litten
Of music, the moon,
The stars unsmitten,
The sun, the unhewn
Stones deeply bitten
By runic fingers of time, where decrees of the Fates are
written|
Time listens, obeys me;
All Nature replies ;
Nought avoids me, nor stays me,
Not checks, nor defies.
Tribute she pays me
From seas unto skies.
But Death—shall he heed me or hear? shall he list to the
lyre and arise ?
O thou who art seated,
Invisible king,
The never-defeated,
The shadowy thing!
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