While from the crowd bursts[140] forth a rapturous noise

By the cloud-capt hills retorted;

And a throng of rosy boys

In loose fashion tell their joys;[141]

And grey-haired sires, on staffs supported,

Look[142] round, and by their smiling seem[143] to say,

Thus strives a grateful Country to display

The mighty debt which nothing can repay!

III

Anon before my sight a palace rose