Blazing with pomp, as if all faërie

Had emptied her quaint halls, or, as it were,

The illuminated marge of some old book,

While we were gazing, life and motion took.

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Then swelled the organ: up through choir and nave

The music trembled with an inward thrill

Of bliss at its own grandeur: wave on wave

Its flood of mellow thunder rose, until

The hushed air shivered with the throb it gave,