disparting

The strife of working intellect, the stir Of hopes ambitious; the disturbing sound Of fame, and all that worshipp'd pageantry That ardent spirits burn, for in their pride, Fly like disparting clouds, and leave the soul Pure and serene as the blue depths of heaven.

The voices of the choir beat upwards through an air blue and heavy with incense; the tapers burning on the altar at the far end of the nave over against us shone blurred and vague as though down some misty tunnel; and from the painted windows on the right the sunshine streamed in slanting rods of light, vari-coloured, disparting the mist.

Now his words and manner perplexed me greatly, for at the moment of my coming to Lukstein, he had seemed most plainly to warn me against encouraging any passion for Ilga, and his conduct since in disparting us had assured me that I had rightly guessed his intention.

This scene—replied he leaning on big bow— Is hallowed by tradition—wondrous birth Here to my Tribe was given long ago; We stand where rose they from disparting earth To light a deathless blaze on Fame's unmouldering hearth.

Disparting towers Trembling all precipitate down dash'd, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.