How Vallas reigned o’er earth’s stupendous caves

Mightily. He who vowed and he who reaped

With eager contest, made their gods themselves.

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The intelligible forms of ancient poets

The fair humanities of old religion

The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty

That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain

Or forest or slow stream, or pebbly spring

Our chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished