With the swift breeze of inspiration shook,

As the pale priestess trembles to the breath

Of unborn oracles! then flushed her cheek,

And all the triumph, all the agony,

Born on the battling waves of love and death

All from her woman's heart, in sudden song

Burst like a fount of fire,

'I go, I go,

Thou sun, thou golden sun, I go

Far from thy light to dwell: