Like dim processions of a dream, have sunk

In twilight-depths away. Return, my soul!

The Cross recalls thee. Lo! the blessed Cross!

High o’er the banners and the crests of earth,

Fix’d in its meek and still supremacy!

And lo! the throng of beating human hearts,

With all their secret scrolls of buried grief,

All their full treasures of immortal hope,

Gather’d before their God! Hark! how the flood

Of the rich organ-harmony bears up