Yet viewless love floats round thee silently!

Not midst the festal throng,

In halls of mirth and song;

But when thy thoughts are deepest,

When holy tears thou weepest,

Know then that love is nigh!

When the night’s whisper o’er thy harp-strings creeping,

Or the sea-music on the sounding shore,

Or breezy anthems through the forest sweeping,

Shall move thy trembling spirit to adore;