And our tumultuous hearts should die,

In that wild dream of ecstasy.

I clasped you to my bosom there,

I played with your dishevell'd hair;

And then the thoughts which long had slept

Within us, waken'd; and we wept.

We wept to think of what had past—

The doubt—the trial—joy at last—

We wept to think of mournful fears—

We wept to hail the future years.