. . . . . . . .

Oh hush! Oh hush! sweet wind!

Thou melancholy soul! be still, I pray,

Nor pierce this heart so long in grief resigned,

With ’plainings for the loved but lifeless clay.

Ah! now by thee I hear

The earnest, gentle voices, as of old:

They speak—in accents tremulously clear⁠—

The young, the beautiful, the noble-souled.

The beautiful, the young,