That dream had end. Once more I saw her face:

No love it looked: the sweet lips breathed no sound:

Then fell I, stone-like, through the fields of space,

And lay, dead bulk, upon the bleeding ground.

IX.

River that windest in thy jewell'd bed,

The palms of her soft feet beside thee move:

But gentleness and peace are round thee spread,

And therefore I am gone from what I love.

Nightly on thee the stars thou lov'st shall gaze: