In loud and solemn benedicite,

Voices the glory of the Central Day,

And through th' illimitable realms of air

Is borne afar

In wafted echoes that the strain prolong

Through boundless space, and countless worlds among,

Meas'ring the pulsing of each lonely star,

And sounding ceaselessly from sphere to sphere

That note of immortality

That whispers in the sorrow of the sea,