Issuing or issued[553] from a wintry fount;
The impenetrable heart of that exalted Mount!
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They, too, who send[554] so far a holy gleam
While they the Church engird[555] with motion slow,
A product of that awful Mountain seem,[556]
Poured from his vaults of everlasting snow;
Not virgin lilies marshalled in bright row,
Not swans descending with the stealthy tide,
A livelier sisterly resemblance show