All silent—like a half forgotten tone

Seems but the echo of a broken chime,

As if a part of memory, pilgrim-like,

Had gone in quest of all, and died away

Amid the distant traces of the past.

The gentle breeze comes from its groves of spice,

And fragrance bears throughout the Virgin air;

And hark! the woodland music—warblings soft

Steal on the gladdened ear—from every hedge,

From every forest dim, a voice proceeds