Alas for those that never sing,

But die with all their music in them!

Nay, grieve not for the dead alone,

Whose song has told their hearts’ sad story: 10

Weep for the voiceless, who have known

The cross without the crown of glory!

Not where Leucadian breezes sweep

O’er Sappho’s memory-haunted billow,

But where the glistening night-dews weep 15

On nameless sorrow’s churchyard pillow.