In his deep heart—but love. He perish’d young,

But perish’d wasted by some fatal flame

That fed upon his vitals: and there came

Lunacy, sweeping lightly, like a stream,

Along his brain—he perish’d in a dream!

In sooth I marvel not

If death be only a mysterious thought,

That cometh on the heart and turns the brow

Brightless and chill, as Julio’s is now;

For only had the wasting struggle been