Among the clamorous suppliants, all agape;

Then, cowering o'er them with expanded wings,

She felt how sweet it is to be a mother.

Of these, a few, with melody untaught,

Turn'd all the air to music within hearing,

Themselves unseen; while bolder quiristers

On loftier branches strain'd their clarion-pipes,

And made the forest echo to their screams

Discordant,—yet there was no discord there,

But temper'd harmony: all tones combining,