Through all his frame a flaming flood was sent;
He stood as with a statue’s fixed surprise,
Great wonder making marble in his eyes!”
What can surpass the simple grandeur of the concluding lines of this passage? The new light which at once bursts on his aroused senses is thus happily described:—
“All things at once became a glorious show;
Now could he see the sainted pictures glow;
And instantly unto his lips
Rolled fragments of old song—
Fragments which had been thrown
Into his heart unknown.” &c.