No sound made but a low faint guggle,

Like cry of infant newly born.

A smile passed o'er her features sunken,

Grasped she the hand beside her then,

Remembrance, just as one half-drunken,

Strove to retrace its course again.

Ah! then came back the well-known faces

Of her young days upon her mind,

The scenes of long ago, in traces

All clear and full and well defined.