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THE ALPS' "TE DEUM."
 
"The Lord is in His holy Temple, let all the earth keep silence."
SUBLIME Cathedral! God's own church,
Tower, pinnacle, and dome,
With vaulted roof of azure blue,
Fresco'd with cloudlet plume.

Grand harmonies from unseen choirs,
Sublime response—below;
The great "Te Deum" from those heights,
Those galleries of snow.

An altar too of fretted rock,
Draped with the silvery snow,
And candlesticks of golden light,
Illumed at sunset's glow.

And mark the nave of glacier blue,
And aisle of dark moraine;
The snowy whiteness shrouded o'er,
Where footsteps wear a stain.