But minister’d to that strange inborn fire.

Midst the bright silence of the mountain dells,

In noontide-hours or golden summer-eves,

My thoughts have burst forth as a gale that swells

Into a rushing blast, and from the leaves

Shakes out response. O thou rich world unseen!

Thou curtain’d realm of spirits!—thus my cry

Hath troubled air and silence—dost thou lie

Spread all around, yet by some filmy screen

Shut from us ever? The resounding woods,