Received our weary little frames at last.

Let not the wise deride our infant fear.

Where is the heart that has not beat sometime

At some dark, superstitious thought of ill

Impending; or the cheek that has not blanched

At some dread mystery yet unexplained?

Where are those gay and loved companions now?

Do they yet cluster round the same bright hearth

That blessed their childhood? Do they linger still

Among those lovely scenes of early youth