Its silent course of quietness and joy.

O dearest, if indeed I tell the past,

May'st thou forget it as a sad sick dream!

Or if it linger—my lost soul too soon

Sinks to itself and whispers we shall be

But closer linked, two creatures whom the earth

Bears singly, with strange feelings unrevealed

Save to each other; or two lonely things

Created by some power whose reign is done,

Having no part in God or his bright world.