By Passion’s stormy wave.

It should have been, ‘Angels an Angel meet;

Seraphs on high a sister-seraph greet!’

II.

‘Earth unto earth;’ ’tis well

That sordid earth should pass to earth again:

In those dark fanes where truth has ceased to dwell,

Why should the shrine remain?

Deep in the dust let all such pass away;

Why should they not?—clay mingles but with clay: