And gentle all enchantments therein found!

I would my song were as a trumpet-sound

To nerve you and speed, and weld its notes with power

To the remembrance of your perfect hour;

To ring again and again, and to recall

With the might of music, all:

The prescience proud, the morning aspiration,

But most the unuttered vow, the inward consecration!

THE OLIVE BOUGH.
A SONG FOR THE END.