"There breathes a living fragrance from the shore

Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear

Drips the light drop of the suspended oar.


At intervals, some bird from out the brakes

Starts into voice a moment, then is still

There seems a floating whisper on the hill,

But that is fancy,—for the starlight dews

All silently their tears of love instil,

Weeping themselves away."