Note 146 — NIGHT-SCENE IN GENOA.
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At an earlier stage in the composition of this poem, the following stanza was here inserted:—
“Nor rose the Magian’s hymn, sublimely swelling In full-toned homage to the source of flame, From fabric rear’d by man, the gorgeous dwelling Of such bright idol-forms as art could frame. Be rear’d no temple, bade no walls contain The breath of incense or the voice of prayer; But made the boundless universe his fane, The rocks his altar-stone—adoring there The Being whose Omnipotence pervades All deserts and all depths, and hallows loneliest shades.”