No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Majestic silence.
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"Palestine", line 163; "No workman's steel", as recited by Heber in The Sheldonian (15 June 1803); this was altered in later editions to: "No workman’s steel, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung"