Methinks we hear

An echo of angelic harmony

From that blest choir who struck their harps with joy

That from the Tempter's ordeal he had risen

An unhurt victor. Round the Throne they pour'd

Their gratulations that the born of clay

Tho' by that mystery bow'd which ever veils

The inscrutable counsels of the All-Perfect One,

Might with the chieftain of the Rebel Host

Cope unsubdued and heavenward hold his way.