That angel-smile of tranquil loveliness,

Which the heart worships, glowing on her brow;

That smile shall brighten the dim evening-star

That points our destined tomb, nor e’er depart

Till the faint light of life is fled afar,

And hush’d the last deep beating of the heart;

The meteor bearer of our parting breath,

A moonbeam in the midnight cloud of death.

Fitz-Greene Halleck.