Tidings of joy and love.—From those pure heights[358]
(Whether of actual vision, sensible
To sight and feeling, or that in this sort
Have condescendingly been shadowed forth
Communications spiritually maintained,
And intuitions moral and divine)
Fell Human-kind—to banishment condemned[ET]
That flowing years repealed not: and distress
And grief spread wide;[EU] but Man escaped the doom
Of destitution;—solitude was not.