It speaks unmanacled by words,

As full of motion as a nest

That palpitates with unfledged birds;

‘Tis likest to Bethesda’s stream,

Forewarned through all its thrilling springs,

White with the angel’s coming gleam,

And rippled with his fanning wings.

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Himself unshaken as the sky,

His words, like whirlwinds, spin on high