E’en now o’er thine aspect swift changes pass,

Like lights and shades over wavy grass:

Tremblest thou, Dreamer? O love and grief!

Ye have storms that shake e’en the closed-up leaf!

On thy parted lips there’s a quivering thrill,

As on a lyre ere its chords are still;

On the long silk lashes that fringe thine eye,

There’s a large tear gathering heavily—

A rain from the clouds of thy spirit press’d:

Sorrowful Dreamer! this is not rest!