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By wafting winds and flooding rains,
From ocean, earth, and sky,
Collected here, the frail remains
Of slumbering millions lie.
From ocean, earth, and sky,
Collected here, the frail remains
Of slumbering millions lie.
What scene of terror and amaze
Breaks through the twilight gloom?
What hand invisible displays
The secrets of the tomb?
Breaks through the twilight gloom?
What hand invisible displays
The secrets of the tomb?
All ages and all nations rise,
And every grain of earth
Beneath my feet, before mine eyes
Is startled into birth.
And every grain of earth
Beneath my feet, before mine eyes
Is startled into birth.
Like gliding mists the shadowy forms
Through the deep valley spread,
And like descending clouds in storms
Lower round the mountain's head.
Through the deep valley spread,
And like descending clouds in storms
Lower round the mountain's head.