For thee in darkness, hoping without hope!
E’en now how lightly should I life resign,
Could I remember I had once been thine!”
Silence! From sight, hearing, passed she apart,
Leaving measureless void within his heart.
He ran, striving to clutch a ghost in vain;
Pursuing with vain words; never again
Looked he upon her; nor could he prevail
Upon Hell’s Ferryman to let him scale
The walls, swimming the moat, and again win,