Rocks and dim caverns of old Prophecy—

Woke to respond: and all the air was fill’d

With that one sighing sound—Farewell! farewell!

Fill’d with that sound? High in the calm blue heav’n

Even then a skylark hung; soft summer clouds

Were floating round him, all transpierced with light,

And midst that pearly radiance his dark wings

Quiver’d with song: such free, triumphant song,

As if tears were not,—as if breaking hearts

Had not a place below; and thus that strain