Their sweet, unearthly melodies—and there

At the soft twilight hour young angels come

To hover o’er the spot on silver wings,

And mark it with their shining foot-prints.

Thou

Art gone, my child—a sweet and holy bud

Is shaken from the rose-tree of our hopes;

But yet we should not mourn. ’Tis joy to know

That thou hast gone in thy young innocence

And purity and beauty from a dark,