Lies dim in hidden sanctuaries of sleep.

The wingèd winds couched on the threshold keep

Uneasy watch, and still expectant stay

The voice that bids their rushing host delay

No more to rise, and with tempestuous power

Rend the wide veil of heaven. Long watching they

Sigh in the silence of the midnight hour.

Hark! where the forests slow in slumber sway

Below the blue wild ridges, steep on steep,

Thronging the sky—how shuddering as they leap