Or, art thou, breathing from a holier clime,

A voice, that calleth tremulously low;

To lure the enraptured soul to things divine,

Far from deluding joys it meets below?

Thou com’st with inspiration ’mid thy sighing,

A melody, unearthly and unknown;

A mingled strain, that on the night-breeze dying,

Wakens the heart-strings to thy thrilling tone.

Recalling wanderings of the spirit-past,

The wayward visions of our fleeting youth;