That sway, though viewless, this world of ours!

Have I not lived midst these lonely dells,

And loved, and sorrow’d, and heard farewells,

And learn’d in my own deep soul to look,

And tremble before that mysterious book?

Have I not, under these whispering leaves,

Woven such dreams as the young heart weaves?

Shadows—yet unto which life seem’d bound;

And is it not—is it not haunted ground?

Must I not hear what thou hearest not,