1. ۱OUT of the murk of heaviest clouds,
2. ۲Out of the feudal wrecks, and heap’d-up skeletons of kings,
3. ۳Out of that old entire European debris—the shatter’d mummeries,
4. ۴Ruin’d cathedrals, crumble of palaces, tombs of priests,
5. ۵Lo! Freedom’s features, fresh, undimm’d, look forth—the same immortal face
6. ۶ looks
7. ۷ forth;
8. ۸(A glimpse as of thy mother’s face, Columbia,
9. ۹A flash significant as of a sword,
10. ۱۰Beaming towards thee.)
11. ۱۱
12. ۱۲Nor think we forget thee, Maternal;
13. ۱۳Lag’d’st thou so long? Shall the clouds close again upon thee?
14. ۱۴Ah, but thou hast Thyself now appear’d to us—we know thee;
15. ۱۵Thou hast given us a sure proof, the glimpse of Thyself;
16. ۱۶Thou waitest there, as everywhere, thy time.