When rings the gush of golden harps,

And heavenly lutes are swept,

To tell the quenchless love of him

Who o’er a lost world wept.

2 The gliding rush of countless wings,

Borne on the swelling breeze,

That wafts the rustling music by,

Amid embowered trees;

The echo of the myriad feet,

That fall on pavements fair,