Back to our early love,—

Our vows of youth at many a shrine,

Whence far and fast we rove.

Welcome high thought and holy strain

That make us Truth’s and Heaven’s again!

THE DYING IMPROVISATORE.[335]

“My heart shall be pour’d over thee—and break.”

Prophecy of Dante.

The spirit of my land,

It visits me once more!—though I must die