They walked softly on the spines,

While you, silent, on your nest

Heard these names, and all the rest

Which passioned from their lips that time

You caught their name-calls in your rhyme;

E’en that night ’neath star-bright skies

Your joy-song sang their sweet Good-bys.

You’re an emigrant, as we;

Other states our birth-states be,

And we bring out memories here,