Of the dim hour are gathering o’er my sight;

And yet I fear not, for the God of Help

Comes in that quiet darkness! It may soothe

Thy woes, my mother! if I tell thee now

With what glad calmness I behold the veil

Falling between me and the world, wherein

My heart so ill hath rested.

Elm. Thine!

Xim. Rejoice

For her that, when the garland of her life