Virtues we left, and early signs of grace.

Dreamings we brought and beauty of the May-

time,

All else we flung to where Time's whirlwinds race.

Timeless are we in this our godlike play-time,

Since Sleep has led us gently face to face.

Gray glide the mists around our ocean's edges,

Gray grope the tides across the gray-paved sea,

Gray clings the foam about our granite ledges,

Naught, naught remains to safeguard you from