On alien shores, his true heart burn’d to hear—

And he is silent! O’er the heathery hills,

Which his own soul had mantled with a light

Richer than autumn’s purple, now they move—

And he is silent!—he, whose flexile lips

Were but unseal’d, and lo! a thousand forms,

From every pastoral glen and fern-clad height,

In glowing life upsprang,—vassal and chief,

Rider and steed, with shout and bugle-peal,

Fast-rushing through the brightly troubled air,