Music awoke. It throbbed like hidden wings

Above them. Then a minstrel’s golden voice,

As from a distance, on those wings arose

And poured the Master’s passion into song:

Burn, Phœnix, burn;

And, in thy burning, take

All that love taught me, all I strove to learn,

All that I made, and all I failed to make.

If it be true

That from the fire thou rise