Thine air with soul, be wandering past me still;

And though the mantle of thy sunlight streams

Unchanged on forms, instinct with poet-dreams.

Never! oh, never more! Where’er I move,

The shadow of this broken-hearted love

Is on me and around! Too well they know

Whose life is all within, too soon and well,

When there the blight hath settled! But I go

Under the silent wings of peace to dwell;

From the slow wasting, from the lonely pain,