And everlasting summer smiles,
Now struggles in its sluggish flow,
Like streams through Greenland’s bank of snow;
Yet not all frozen,—if a beam
Of light return from earlier years,
If, from the spell of childhood’s dream,
Triumphant over grief and tears,
One bright, enchanting moment come,
Like a lost, loved one welcomed home,
The loosened current, warmed anew,