A dim uncertain flickering threw around.

The waning fire was but a heap of ashes,

While there and there a feeble red remained,

That now and then threw out a fitful gleam.

Something like slumber fell upon my eyes,

And a dream passed o'er my spirit stealthily,

As, in the early grey of morn, the mists,

Gathered in masses, up the hill-sides creep,

Ere they dissolve before the sun away.

Remembrance cannot all its features tell,