Wearied beside the Shining Gate.

Sad and low,

Flowed in an undertone of woe:

Wailing among the moons it came,

Sobbing in echoes against the stars;

Smothered behind some comet's flame,

Lost in the wind of the war-like Mars,

—Mingling, ever and anon,

With the music's swell a sigh or moan.

"As in a glass,