Chapter 83 of 85 · 48 words · ~1 min read

XC.

And once again there gather'd a scarce heard Whisper among them; as it were, the stirr'd Ashes of some all but extinguisht Tongue, Which mine ear kindled into living Word.

This was a fourth quatrain evolved out of O. 103. _Vide_ quatrains Nos. 82, 83, and 87 _ante_.