And now the wild and jubilant music Of the singing burst from the solemn profound of the silence, Surged in triumph and fell, and ebbed again into silence.

" Within the lone church no loitering footfall O'er threshold, aisle, or chancel echoed, No sound intruded on the hush profound Of that ancient temple.

The mountain-plain it shook around, The vales return'd a hollow sound, And, moving with a sigh profound.

" In the progress of day, "Shorn of his glory through the dim profound, With melancholy aspect looks the orb Of stifled day, and while he strives to pierce And dissipate the slow reluctant gloom, Seems but a rayless globe, an autumn moon, That gilds opaque the purple zone of eve, And yet distributes of her thrifty beam.

unfold thy dark depthslet a voice come up from thy cloudy infinitelet a ray penetrate thy unfathomable profound.

an ill run at play Blanked his bold visage, and a thin third day: Swearing and supperless the hero sate, Blasphemed his gods, the dice, and damned his fate; Then gnawed his pen, then dashed it on the ground, Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound! Plunged for his sense, but found no bottom there; Yet wrote and floundered on in mere despair.

Enwrapp'd in magic's veil profound, Let wondrous charms our senses thrill!