The history of many a winter storm,

Or obscure records of the path of fire.[AL]

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And thus before his eighteenth year was told,

Accumulated feelings pressed his heart

With still increasing weight;[40] he was o'erpowered

By Nature; by the turbulence subdued

Of his own mind; by mystery and hope,

And the first virgin passion of a soul

Communing with the glorious universe.[AM]