Singing afar his strain of heavenly hope,—

So wear thy years away, ah, tranquilly!—

Thou art so young—All this will come to seem

A dream of yesternight—

Yvette

Dost thou forgive?

De Vardes

And at the last when Death shall take thy hand,

Smile at the due caress, and lightly come—

If I am I, I’ll meet thee on the strand!