Their fathers’ dust,[45] or lift, perchance of yore,

Their voice to the great Spirit:—rocks sublime

To human art a sportive semblance bore,

And yellow lichens coloured all the clime,

Like moonlight battlements, and towers decayed by time.

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But high in amphitheatre above,

His arms the everlasting aloes threw:

Breathed but an air of heaven, and all the grove

As if with instinct living spirit grew,