Peace.... Thou may’st bandage mine eyes to-night,
And lead me the river nigh—
But give me one moment’s sight!
“For then I would have one fleeting glance,
Beautiful world, farewell!
Earth, full of all that is loveliest,
Who shall my sad fate tell,
Flung on the river’s breast?
“World, thou wert fair as all God’s things be;
But hardly my days went by—