Visions of blood, in that dying hour,

To his stormy soul were given—

Feasts, and victorious battle-fields,

Were the Norseman’s dreams of Heaven.

The Greek had high, ambitious dreams,

Of Elysium’s fabled clime;

The Druid too—ah, many and strange,

Were the dreams of olden time.

How will those dreams accord with thee,

When time exists no more,