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CANTO III
I.
MYSTIC realm where ruled the deathless kings,
While times unmeasured rolled in light away!
Serene wert thou with oft-recurring springs,
And soft reflections of transplendent day.
Celestial heralds waved their bright array
Upon thy sunbeat mountain-peaks, aglow
With wandering clouds and drifts of shining spray;
Far soaring skyward, or descending slow,
Their silver-plumèd wings swept ever to and fro.
MYSTIC realm where ruled the deathless kings,While times unmeasured rolled in light away!
Serene wert thou with oft-recurring springs,
And soft reflections of transplendent day.
Celestial heralds waved their bright array
Upon thy sunbeat mountain-peaks, aglow
With wandering clouds and drifts of shining spray;
Far soaring skyward, or descending slow,
Their silver-plumèd wings swept ever to and fro.
II.
Along thy rills there crept no boreal breath;
No sounding storm o'er tranquil valleys whirled;
Far-fleeting thence, that silent warrior Death,
O'er sunless snows his conquering banners furled,
Nor darkened noon nor crossed a withering world.
Along thy rills there crept no boreal breath;
No sounding storm o'er tranquil valleys whirled;
Far-fleeting thence, that silent warrior Death,
O'er sunless snows his conquering banners furled,
Nor darkened noon nor crossed a withering world.
