Then pass as planet dust or gaseous cloud,
To build new cosmos, gnawed by new decay.
Earth’s senseless atoms ever clasp and whirl,
Unclasp again to form in mazes new;
And ever on the white cliff stands some girl
With dead eyes gazing on the sailless blue.
Earth’s roses die, but still the rose lives on,
The song survives the swift Leucadian leap;—
A dream of immortality is ours.
Where golden Daphnis in the morning shone,