(Nations from before them sweeping,

Regions in destruction steeping,)

But every awful note in unison[242]

With that faint utterance, which tells

Of treasure sucked from buds and bells,

For the pure keeping of those waxen cells;[243]

Where She—a statist prudent to confer

Upon the common[244] weal; a warrior bold,

Radiant all over with unburnished gold,

And armed with living spear for mortal fight;[245]