Though fairer than all elder hopes removed

As landmarks by the crime

Of inundating time;

Light faith by grief too loud too long reproved:

For even as in some darkling dance

Wronged love changed hands with hate, and turned his heart from France.

12.

But past the snows and summits Pyrenean

Love stronger-winged held more prevailing flight

That o'er Tyrrhene, Iberian, and Ægean

Shores lightened with one storm of sound and light.

From earliest even to hoariest years one pæan

Rang rapture through the fluctuant roar of fight,

From Nestor's tongue in accents Achillean

On death's blind verge dominant over night

For voice as hand and hand

As voice for one fair land

Rose radiant, smote sonorous, past the height

Where darkling pines enrobe

The steel-cold Lake of Gaube,

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