I, too, have jewels e’n more bright⁠—

My dew-drop gems, which deck the night.

“In their blue home thy gold-fish rove⁠—

I, too, have children whom to love,

My fairy birds who sport along,

Here in their happy world of song.”

The voice was still. The ocean sighed,

In harp-like tones its waves replied—

“Our converse, unperceived by men,

Still lasts, though sound is hushed, e’en then,