My soul hath caught a spark from thine.

Oh! deem not, in the proudest hour

Of triumph and exulting power—

Deem not the light of peace could find

A home within my troubled mind.

Conflicts by mortal eye unseen,

Dark, silent, secret, there have been,

Known but to Him whose glance can trace

Thought to its deepest dwelling-place!

—’Tis past—and on my native shore