the summer midnight
So _ true _ everywhere ; true eyesight and vision for all things ; material things no less than spiritual ; the Horse , -- ` hast thou clothed his neck with _ thunder _ ? ' -- he ' _ laughs _ at the shaking of the spear ! ' Such living likenesses were never since drawn . Sublime sorrow , sublime reconciliation : oldest choral melody as of the heart of mankind ; -- so soft , and great ; as the summer midnight , as the world with its seas and stars ! There is nothing written , I think , in the Bible or out of it , of equal literary merit . -- To the idolatrous Arabs one of the most ancient universal objects of worship was that Black Stone , still kept in the building called Caabah at Mecca . Diodorus Siculus mentions this Caabah in a way not to be mistaken , as the oldest , most honoured temple in his time ; that is , some half-century before our Era .