And then I murmured, Oh! we never part,

My love, my life, my bride!


And silence o’er us, after that great bliss,

Fell like a welcome shadow—and I heard

The far woods sighing, and a summer bird

Singing amid the trees;

The sweet bird’s happy song, that streamed around,

The murmur of the woods, the azure skies,

Were graven on my heart, though ears and eyes