Victim! hath set its promise in thine eye:

A light is there, too quenchless for the tomb,

Bright earnest of a nobler destiny;

Telling of answers, in some far-off sphere,

To the deep souls that find no echo here.

COME HOME!

Come home! There is a sorrowing breath

In music since ye went,

And the early flower-scents wander by

With mournful memories blent.