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Lyres of the woods, that awaken / Longings and infinite tears, / Memories stretching, forsaken, / Hands through the mist of the years, / Crowd through the branches that listen, / Shining with tears of the skies, / Dew-silvered branches that glisten, / Pools where the radiance lies, / Lighting a shadowy chamber / With glory of magical dreams, / Pearl, crystal, and wavering amber / In arrowy gleams.
Myriad lyres! O voices / Of Earth, and Ocean, and Air, / The pulse of thy music rejoices / With passion, the heart of despair; / Singing, eternally singing.
Ye are wasted with pain as with fire, / But voyaging ever and winging, / Arrayed in the wings of desire, / Through the ocean of light to the portals / Shining with silver that bar / The house of the deathless immortals, / Divine but afar.