In thy kind eyes this deep, deep love shall give me loveliness.
“But wake! my heart within me burns, yet once more to rejoice
In the sound to which it ever leap’d, the music of thy voice.
Awake! I sit in solitude, that thy first look and tone,
And the gladness of thine opening eyes, may all be mine alone.”
In the still chambers of the dust, thus pour’d forth day by day,
The passion of that loving dream from a troubled soul found way,
Until the shadows of the grave had swept o’er every grace,
Left midst the awfulness of death on the princely form and face.
And slowly broke the fearful truth upon the watcher’s breast,