That Death would come and take me now;
'Then stopped to hear an answer given—
So much had madness warped my mind—
When, sudden, through the midnight heaven,
With long howl woke the Winter's wind;
And roused in me, though undefined,
A rushing thought of tumbling seas
Whose wild waves wandered unconfined,
And, far-off, surging, whispered, "Peace."
'I cannot speak the feeling strange,