Not wildly crazed to tear her hair,

But mute and sad, as if despair

Had worn away life's tuneful strings,

And sealed to Thought its gushing springs.

But on that ring mute Alice Hill

For ever looks, as if a thrill

Of reason shot across her brain,

And darted gleams of mental pain.

Bold Winter lay on Moreland Vale.

His bearded crown of ice and hail,