In the rich confluence often thousand tongues,

To tell of joy and to inspire it. Who

Could hear such concert, and not join in chorus?

Not I;—sometimes entranced, I seem'd to float

Upon a buoyant sea of sounds: again

With curious ear I tried to disentangle

The maze of voices, and with eye as nice

To single out each minstrel, and pursue

His little song through all its labyrinth,

Till my soul enter'd into him, and felt