The deep beseeching of a stricken breast,

Survived the vainly-gifted. In the souls

Of the kind few that loved him, with a love

Faithful to even its disappointed hope,

That song of tears found root, and by their hearths

Full oft, in low and reverential tones,

Fill’d with the piety of tenderness,

Is murmur’d to their children, when his name

On some faint harp-string of remembrance falls,

Far from the world’s rude voices, far away.