With dreamy whispers fill the immortal air;

If thought, here piled from many a jewel-heap,

Be treasure in that pensive land to keep;

If love, o’ersweeping change, and blight, and blast,

Find there the music of his home at last:

I ask’d, and I was answer’d. Full and high

Was that communion with eternity—

Too rich for aught so fleeting! Like a knell

Swept o’er my sense its closing words, “Farewell!

On earth we meet no more!” And all was gone—