And there a moment's sojourn made;

As lovers will in woodlands bare.

Nought heeded they where now they stood,

Since theirs its alien solitude

Beyond imagination fair.

The light an earthly candle gives

When it is quenched leaves only dark;

Theirs yet in clear remembrance lives

And, still within, I whispered, 'Hark;'

As one who faintly on high has heard