Its moisten’d strings, and tuned them with a sigh.

“I hear thee, how thy spirit goeth by,

In music and in love. Oh, Agathè!

Thou sleepest long, long, long; and they will say

That seek thee,—‘she is dead—she is no more!’

But thou art cold, and I will throw before

Thy chilly brow the pale and snowy sheet.”

And he did lift it from her marble feet,

The sea-wet shroud! and flung it silently

Over her brow—the brow of Agathè!