Of warbled anthems pealing round.

Oh, none but voices of the sky

Might wake that thrilling harmony,

Whose tones, whose very echoes made

An Eden of the lonely shade!

Years have gone by; the hermit sleeps

Amidst Gargano’s woods and steeps;

Ivy and flowers have half o’ergrown

And veil’d his low sepulchral stone:

Yet still the spot is holy, still