Is thy soul strengthen’d, my beloved one?

O Edith! couldst thou lift up thy sweet voice,

And sing me that old solemn-breathing hymn

We loved in happier days—the strain which tells

Of the dread conflict in the olive shade?

Edith sings.

He knelt, the Saviour knelt and pray’d,

When but his Father’s eye

Look’d through the lonely garden’s shade

On that dread agony;