With all thy melancholy sounds,
In the ocean’s billowy host.
Oh! art thou not, dark river!
Like the fearful thoughts untold
Which haply, in the hush of night,
O’er many a soul have roll’d?
Those earth-born strange misgivings—
Who hath not felt their power?
Yet who hath breathed them to his friend,
E’en in his fondest hour?