My palm brim up and overflow

With blood that, beads of oozing glow,

Dripped, drop by drop, upon the snow,

Like holly-berries on the snow.

Then something darkly seemed to melt

Within me, and I heard a sigh

So like a moan, 'twas as if years

Of anguish bore it; and the sky

Swam near me as when seen through tears—

And she was gone.... In ghostly gloom