Our steps that grope the footstool.

O! go in

Say not that to your gaze has been unbar’d

The mightiness of majesty, until

You’ve stood within the shadow of that sea

And heard it call unto you—until eye

And ear have stood the terrible rebuke

That rolls from those great caverns—till your blood

Flies to its citadel, and you grow white

Within the whirlpool presence of a flood