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ON THE GEMMI ROAD ABOVE GASTERN-THAL
The song was heard, the singer he was hid,
As there I listened to the organ-tone,
Where the ten thousand waters joined in one
With joyful chorus down to Gastern slid;
O how their Hallelujahs shamed and chid
My songless heart! when that great glory shone,
Like to His face that none may look upon,
The sunlit snow of Altel's pyramid.
As there I listened to the organ-tone,
Where the ten thousand waters joined in one
With joyful chorus down to Gastern slid;
O how their Hallelujahs shamed and chid
My songless heart! when that great glory shone,
Like to His face that none may look upon,
The sunlit snow of Altel's pyramid.
But as I listened to that mellow flood,
I felt my soul with ecstasy new born,
And heard a voice from Heaven, which seemed to say,
For praise arose the mighty Doldenhorn,
For praise the vale was hollowed on the day
God gazed upon the work and called it good.
I felt my soul with ecstasy new born,
And heard a voice from Heaven, which seemed to say,
For praise arose the mighty Doldenhorn,
For praise the vale was hollowed on the day
God gazed upon the work and called it good.
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