A glow of deep, ideal loveliness.

My vanished childhood rises to my view

In pale and melancholy beauty. Life

Since then hath been but desolate. Alas!

What heart-chords have been broken, what bright dreams

Been shadowed by the hue of grief. No more

The Egeria of my spirit-worship haunts

The grove and wood. No charm can woo her back,

She will not hear my call, she answers not

The witching spell of fancy. It is not