bright,

Which toss’d in the breeze with a play of light;

There were eyes in whose glistening laughter lay

No faint remembrance of dull decay!

There were steps that flew o’er the cowslip’s head,

As if for a banquet all earth were spread;

There were voices that rang through the sapphire sky,

And had not a sound of mortality!

Are they gone? is their mirth from the mountains pass’d?

Ye have look’d on death since ye met me last!