And thinking of the days that are no more. 5

‘Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,

That brings our friends up from the underworld,

Sad as the last which reddens over one,

That sinks with all we love below the verge;

So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more. 10

‘Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns

The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds

To dying ears, when unto dying eyes

The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;