XII. Lo, as a dove when up she springs The wild pulsation of her wings; Like her I go ; I cannot stay; And leave the cliffs, and haste away O'er ocean-mirrors rounded large, And linger weeping on the marge, And saying; ‘Comes he thus, my friend ? “Is this the end? Is this the end ?’ XIII. Tears of the widower, when he sees Her place is empty, fall like these; Which weep a loss for ever new, A void where heart on heart repobcd; And, where warm hands havo prest and closed, Silence, till I be silent too. Which weep the comrade of my choice, A Spirit, not a breathing voice. Come Time, and teach me, many years, I do not suffer in a dream; For now so strange do these things soeni, My fancies time to rise on wing, And glance about tho approaching sails, And not the burthen that they uring. XIV. If one should bring me this report, And found thee lying in the port; And standing, muffled round with woe, Should see thy passengers in rank Come stepping lightly down the plank, And beckoning unto those they know; And if along with these should come And ask a thousand things of home; And I should tell him all my pain, And marvel what possess'd my brain; |