A dream in which there is no love,

And yet, my friends, you live and move.

When I could live without a pain,

And feel no wish to be alive,

In quiet hopelessness I sleep, 25

Alas! how quiet, and how deep!

Oh no! I do not, cannot rue,

I did not strive to follow you.

I might have dropp’d, and died alone

On unknown snows, a spot unknown. 30