Those pictured shapes!—a bright, yet solemn train

Beckoning, they floated o’er her dreamy brain,

Clothed in diviner hues; while on her ear

Strange voices fell, which none besides might hear,

—Sweet, yet profoundly mournful, as the sigh

Of winds o’er harp-strings through a midnight sky;

And thus it seem’d, in that low, thrilling tone,

Th’ ancestral shadows call’d away their own.

Come, come, come!

Long thy fainting soul hath yearn’d