And this black heart untold?

Here is calm Autumn now, the woodlands quake,

And, where this splendour of death lies under the tread,

The spectre of frost will stalk, and a silence make,

And snow's white shroud be spread.

O Self! O self! Wake from thy common sleep!

Fling off the destroyer's net. He hath blinded and bound thee.

In nakedness sit; pierce thy stagnation, and weep;

Or corrupt in thy grave—all Heaven around thee.

FORGIVENESS