Beneath the blue and glorious sky, to hold

Communion with the golden hours now gone

Into the past eternity.

My heart

Is very soft to-night, and joys long past

Shine through the silver mists of memory,

Like sweet stars of the soul. My brow is flushed,

My bosom throbs, and blesséd tears well up

From my heart’s unsealed fountain, as I see,

Through the pale shadows of the years, the home