Dark length’ning shadows on the verdant earth,
And men had gather’d to the burial.
Women were there, with hearts of sympathy
For the bereaved; and rosy children too
Gazed up into the mourner’s marble face,
With troubled looks of awe, and wonder’d why
She was alone, and where the lovely boy
Whom they had ever seen beside her—was.
The mother brought her babe, and when it cried,
Alarm’d at her unwonted gravity,