How shall I speak? Thoughts knot with thoughts, and utterance check.

with noisy utterance claim Right to an ignoble name, Inharmonious!why must you, To a better self untrue, Gifted with the charm of song, Do the generous gift such wrong?

His voice was sweet, and his utterance distinct and rapid.

Thy worlds are flashing with immortal splendor, For human speech on heights of human song Faintly to render, And pour back along Its mountain grandeur, the accumulate rain Of star-light, dream-light, thoughts of joy and pain, Of love, hate, right and wrong, In floods of utterance sublime and strong, In dewy effluence beautiful and tender.