A consciousness remained that it had left,

Deposited upon the silent shore

Of memory, images and precious thoughts,

That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

"These grassy heaps lie amicably close,"

Said I, "like surges heaving in the wind

Along[629] the surface of a mountain pool:

Whence comes it, then, that yonder we behold

Five graves, and only five, that rise together

Unsociably sequestered, and encroaching[630]