And then as, 'mid the dark, a gleam

Of yet another morning breaks,

And like the hand which ends a dream,

Death, with the might of his sunbeam,

Touches the flesh and the soul awakes,

Then"—

Ay, then indeed something would happen!

But what? For here her voice changed like a bird's;

There grew more of the music and less of the words;

Had Jacynth only been by me to clap pen