And music’s soul-creative ecstasies;

Dream I—nor gloating o’er a wide estate,

Till the full, self-complacent heart, elate,

Well satisfied with bliss of mortal birth,

Sighs for an immortality on earth:

But where the incessant din

Of iron hands, and roar of brazen throats,

Join their unmingling notes;

While the long summer day is pouring in,

Till day is done, and darkness doth begin;