And soon with mightier longing overroll

Their wonted, moon-drawn ways, and throb and swell

’Gainst the bared bosom of the happy earth;

So comes her spirit in the empty well

Of my dead heart, and overflows its dearth

With her all-perfect presence and the spell

Of love as strong, as sweet, as at its birth.


THE ROMAN RITUAL AND ITS CHANT
COMPARED WITH THE WORKS OF MODERN MUSIC.[112]
INTRODUCTION.