Amid the deafening tumult, scarcely heard

By him that utters it, exclaim aloud,

'Rage on ye elements! let moon and stars

Their aspects lend, and mingle in their turn

With this commotion (ruinous though it be)

From day to night, from night to day, prolonged!'"[344]

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"Yes," said the Wanderer, taking from my lips

The strain of transport, "whosoe'er in youth

Has, through ambition of his soul, given way