VIII.

Oh, never yet in trance or dream

That falls when crowned desire has died,

So breathed the air of power supreme,

So breathed, and calmed, and satisfied!

Did then those mystic lips unclose,

Or that diviner silence make

A seeming voice? The flame arose,

The deity his message spake:

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