I would give all that earth to man can be,

If thou wert only in this world with me!

Day after day

I seek thee, but thou art not near!

I sit down on thy grave in the cold clay,

And listen for thy soul!—oh! dear!

And when some withered leaf falls from the tree,

I start as if thy soul had spoke to me!

And so it is,

And so it ever more must be