Crossword-Solution: ALLELUIAS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Never have I worked harder or better than during those seven days, when I put into the effort not only my heart and soul, but the last flame of my dying vitality, We had a rousing revival--one of the good old-time affairs when the mourners' benches were constantly filled and the air resounded with alleluias.

And lo! the heart's true voices sing From the exulting reverent breast, And lips proclaim, with adoration blessed, Glad Alleluias to the King.

Sometimes I think that James, enveloped in priestly vestments, nodding in the sanctuary, lulled by the muttering murmur of the psalms or dozing through a long credo, may have thought himself back amid the brilliant sunshine and strange perfumes of Espanola; and from a dream of some nymph hiding in the sweet groves of the Vega may have awakened with a sigh to the strident Alleluias of his brother priests.

Nay, I tell you, Fra Paolo, I have cried on all the saints-- If this be devil's prompting, let them drown it In Alleluias! Yet not one replies.

All down the radiant slope of golden stairs, By which he climbed so late from earth to heaven, It rolled impalpable--a fragrant cloud; And still, turned from the Alleluias loud, Beyond the portal-guarding angels seven, He listened earthward, for a voice--a sound Out of the dark that spread beneath profound.