I stand beside your lowly grave

Silence is breathing around

Mourning while you are slumbering low

In this world's vernal dawn?



Ah dream too bright to last

Ah starry hope that did arise

But to be overcast

A voice from out of the future cries

On and on and over the past

Dim gulf, my spirit hovering lies

Mute, motionless, aghast

Mute, motionless, aghast?



For alas with me !

The light of life is over

No..no more?no more!

Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree

Or the stricken eagle soar

Such language holds the solemn sea

To the sands upon the shore

To the sands..upon the shore!