Oh come, thou only joy undying, death!

WAVE-VOICES: O wind, that failing, failing, failing, dies,

Beneath the heat of August-laden skies,

Sinking in sleep, sinking in quiet sleep--

Thy blue wings folded o'er our dreaming deep

We too are weary, weary in the noon;

We too will fall in shining slumber soon--

Foamless and still, foamless and very still,

Unstirred, unshaken by thy restless will.

Yet there are eyes that cannot, cannot close,