And mountain-rocks and cloudy steeps are riv'n

By founts of fire, as smitten by the rod

Of heavenly Moses,—that your thirsty sense

May quench its longings of magnificence!

And she, the lonely widow,

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And she, the lonely widow,

"Yet suns shall perish—stars shall fade away—

Day into darkness—darkness into death—

Death into silence; the warm light of day,