Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein

Whirled us o’er sunless ground beneath a sky

As void of sunshine, when, from that wide plain,

Clear tops of far-off mountains we descry,

Like a Sierra of cerulean Spain, 5

All light and lustre. Did no heart reply?

Yes, there was One;—for One, asunder fly

The thousand links of that ethereal chain;

And green vales open out, with grove and field,

And the fair front of many a happy Home; 10