Which
weep a loss for ever new,
A void where heart on heart reposed;
And, where warm hands have prest and closed,
Silence,
till I be silent too.
Which
weeps the comrade of my choice,
An awful thought, a life removed,
The human-hearted man I loved,
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 seem,
Mine
eyes have leisure for their tears;
My
fancies time to rise on wing,
And glance about the approaching sails,
As tho’ they brought but merchants’ bales,
And
not the burthen that they bring.