The form and motion of a stream to take;

Where it begins to stir, yet voiceless as a snake.[JM]

Volumes of sound, from the Cathedral rolled,

This long-roofed Vista penetrate—but see,

One after one, its tablets, that unfold

The whole design of Scripture history;

From the first tasting of the fatal Tree,

Till the bright Star appeared in eastern skies,

Announcing, One was born mankind to free;

His acts, his wrongs, his final sacrifice;