’Twas long ago, so long ago!

Those faces sweet, those happy eyes,

Looked nevermore on Western skies;

Where the hot sunbeams weave their net

O’er cedar-crowned, sad Olivet,

They who had shared their lives shared death,

Tasting at once the first strange breath

Of those quick airs for souls that flow

So long ago, so long ago!

In vain we picture to our eyes