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Like to a mighty heart the music seemed,

That yearns with melodies it cannot speak,

Until, in grand despair of what it dreamed,

In the agony of effort it doth break,

Yet triumphs breaking; on it rushed and streamed

And wantoned in its might, as when a lake,

Long pent among the mountains, bursts its walls

And in one crowding gash leaps forth and falls. 520