With the love of God encompassed in her smiling, weeping eyes.

I will bury on the morrow, too, a grandame, wrinkled, old;

One whose pleasures of the present were the joys that had been told;

I will bury one whose blessing

Was the transport of caressing

Every joy that she had buried-every lost and broken prize;

With a gleam of heaven-expected, in her dim and longing eyes.

I will joy for her to-morrow, as I see her compassed in;

For the lips now pure and holy might be some time stained with sin;

And the brow now white and stainless,