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Two Voices
are there -one is of the Sea,
One of the Mountains;
each a mighty Voice:
In both from age to age thou
didst rejoice;
They were thy chosen music, Liberty!
There came a tyrant, and with holy glee
Thou
fought'st against him; but hast vainly striven:
Thou
from thy Alpine holds at length art driven
Where not
a torrent murmurs heard by thee.
Of one deep bliss
thine ear hath been bereft;
Then cleave, O cleave to
that which still is left;
For, high-souled Maid, what
sorrow would it be
That Mountain floods should
thunder as before,
And Ocean bellow from his rocky
shore,
And neither awful Voice be heard by Thee!
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