Amid delight's swift-rushing flood,

And we and all the world seemed good

Nor needed hope now cold and dead.

Dream in the dawn I come to thee

Weeping for things that may not be!

Dream that thou layest lips on me!

Wake, wake to clasp hope's body dead!

Count o'er and o'er, and one by one,

The minutes of the happy sun

That while agone on kissed lips shone,