The moonbeams on the hollies glow

Pale where she left me; and the snow

Lies bleak in moonshine on the graves,

Ribbed with each gust that shakes and waves

Ancestral cedars by her tomb....

She lay so beautiful in death,

My Gloramone,—whose loveliness

Death had not dimmed with all its doom,—

That, urged by my divine distress,

I sought her sepulchre: the gloom,