Classic Poem

There was a power in thee, that from my soul
Drew forth strange energies;
There was new music in the thunder's roll
And in the rising seas.

All nature was suffused with a new glory
Before my raptured eye;
My life was made one sweet enchanted story
Thrilled through with ecstasy.

We had one will, one life, one fate, one aim,
One spirit in us dwelt;
Our very features seemed to grow the same,
Beneath one heaven we knelt.

Love was our tutor, and, like some sweet flower,
Beneath its suns and rains
Our life grew full of loveliness and power,
Sweet hopes and gentlest pains.

Sweet musings, high imaginations streamed
Our spirits to unbind;
It seemed as though heaven ope'd and downward gleamed
Rays from the Eternal Mind.

All was so wild, so fair, so wonderful,
The sounds and scenes of dreams,
Or some low strain of music, rich and full,
That on the spirit streams.

Love made the world a smiling Faerie land.
There was no crime, no woe;
Gold had no power, there was no bloodstained brand,
No tear was seen to flow.

All Nature knew an universal rest,
The world had wedded love,
No longer, so we deemed, was man distressed,
Heaven was no more above.