Of thy wild torrent, and as with a star

The brow deck’d proudly, hear thy oracles

Divine; and to repeat them, as of old

Greece listen’d mute to those from Delphic cells

The favour’d priestess of Apollo told;

While she with sacred horror would unfold

The words prophetic, trembling to refer

To the consuming god that frenzied her.

There is of life a spirit that pervades

The universe divine: ’tis he who shades