O tell me, friends, ye hardly hear!

O tell me, friends, ere words are o’er!

There’s something in me sad and sore

Repines, and underneath my eyes

I feel a somewhat that would rise,—

O tell me, O my friends, and you,

Do you feel nothing like it too?

O tell me, friends, ere words are o’er!

O tell me, friends that are no more,

Do you, too, think ere it is o’er