Sweet Dreams!—down Lethe's billow they depart—

Words are too weak to clothe them worthily.

Rich incense, burnt upon some altar stone

Censerless,—in a temple—desert—lone!

What shall we do in these delightful days,

When the full, bounding heart, will not be still;—

When the glad eye, absorbed in far-sent gaze,

Forgets Earth's plenitude of grief and ill;—

Shall we dream on, in a bewitching maze

Of sweet affections and bold hopes, until