Therefore, in the lily’s leaf,

She can read no word of grief;

O’er the woodbine she can dwell,

Murmuring not—Farewell! farewell!

And her dim, yet speaking eye

Greets the violet solemnly.

Therefore once, and yet again,

Strew them o’er her bed of pain;

From her chamber take the gloom

With a light and flush of bloom: