Who loved her thus. Her spirit dwelt the while

With the departed, and her patient smile

Spoke of farewells to earth; yet still she pray’d,

E’en o’er her soldier’s lowly grave, for aid

One purpose to fulfil, to leave one trace

Brightly recording that her dwelling-place

Had been among the wilds; for well she knew

The secret whisper of her bosom true,

Which warn’d her hence.

And now, by many a word