Or float, on the light wind borne?

We know not—but she is gone!

Her step from the dance, her voice from the song,

And the smile of her eye from the festal throng;

She hath left her dwelling lone!

When the waves at sunset shine,

We may hear thy voice amidst thousands more,

In the scented woods of our glowing shore;

But we shall not know ’tis thine!

Even so with the loved one flown!