That sister mine—At last, life meant but this,—

To envy that cold tomb, all night, all day,

That held her only.—Norman, pardon me:

Such woe, such loneliness,—ah, strange was it

That oft then I recall’d your form, your words?

And when I render’d forth upon the stage

Scenes you had visioned, phrases you had fram’d,

That then I came to do as you would do,

And think as you would think?—or that my tongue

Should linger o’er your language, as o’er sweets