And I catch but a shapeless sound,

For the Living are Ghosts to me.

Come buy—come buy!—

Hark! how the sweet things sigh

(For they have a voice like ours,)

“The breath of the Blind Girl closes

The leaves of the saddening roses—

We are tender, we sons of Light,

We shrink from this child of Night;

From the grasp of the Blind Girl free us,