Drew silently the worship of my youth

To the grave sweetness on the brow of truth;

Shall they shower blessing, with their beams divine,

Down to the watcher on the stormy sea,

And to the pilgrim toiling for his shrine

Through some wild pass of rocky Apennine,

And to the wanderer lone

On wastes of Afric thrown,

And not to me?

Am I a thing forsaken?