For then with spirits I commune,

And Eustace listens to my song.

Oh, not to her who wildly mourns

Her noble lover basely slain—

Oh, not to her the morn returns

With pleasure laughing in her train.

So look'd it once, when Eustace sung

Of plighted love's perennial joys,

Now silent is that tuneful tongue,

That graceful form the worm destroys.