But hearts in other bosoms beat

Where anguish finds a lasting seat—

That heal not with the lapse of time—

Too delicately stung for earth,

Whose chords can never after chime

With peals of loud, unmeaning mirth.

Weeks flew: but Zillah in their flight

Strove oft, but vainly, to forget

The horrors of that fatal night,

When her beloved star, whose light