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Updated: May 19, 2025
Hours passed as I watched the indescribable glories of the fire- fountain, its beauty of form, and its radiant reflection on the precipices, eight hundred feet high, which wall it in, and listened to its surges beating, and the ebb and flow of its thunder-music. Then a change occurred.
It was like the voices of the stars and the mountains, that whisper of that which is and which conquers, of That which conquers without sound or sign; Helen, I thought of that wonderful testament of Pascal's that has haunted me all my lifetime, those strange, wild, gasping words of a soul gone mad with awe, and beyond all utterance except a cry, 'Joy, joy, tears of joy! And I thought of a still more fearful story, I thought that it must have been such thunder-music that rang through the soul of the Master and swept Him away beyond scorn and pain, so that the men about Him seemed like jeering phantoms that He might scatter with His hand, before the glory of vision in which it was all one to live or die.
For ever falling in fiery masses and fiery foam: accompanied by a thunder-music of its own: companioned only by the solemn stars: exhibiting no other token of its glories to man than the reflection of its fires on mist and smoke; it burns for the Creator's eye alone. No foot of mortal can approach it.
Five hundred men in surplices thronging the chapel from end to end the very flower of English youth, in manly beauty, in strength, in race, in courage, in mind all kneeling side by side, bound together in a common bond of union by the grand historic associations of that noble place all mingling their voices together with the trebles of the choir and the thunder-music of the organ.
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