Straight deathward, trails his luckless driver on,

Whirl’d powerless to prevent all as a babe.”

I spake of Haydn’s love.

They bade me think

“How often love that loses earthly friends,

Comes back from all things outward toward itself;

And finding self, finds heaven’s design within?

Did not I know that loss and gain are both

Sent here to aid the worth of inner traits

And change the phases of the spirit’s growth?—