The voice of love, nor yearning nor desire

Pass its grim boundaries, but brooding wings

Of silence cover its eternal sleep.

Lost utterly! Yet still I spoke to him,

As if, perchance, some whisper of my voice

Might stir the pools of silence where he lay,

And tremble lightly on the veils of sleep,

Waking some consciousness of me. Alas!

He was not there with me, but on the wind,

In every tree, his soul went wandering,