1. ۱BARDS of Passion and of Mirth,
2. ۲Ye have left your souls on earth!
3. ۳Have ye souls in heaven too,
4. ۴Doubled-lived in regions new?
5. ۵Yes, and those of heaven commune
6. ۶With the spheres of sun and moon;
7. ۷With the noise of fountains wondrous,
8. ۸And the parle of voices thund'rous;
9. ۹With the whisper of heaven's trees
10. ۱۰And one another, in soft ease
11. ۱۱Seated on Elysian lawns
12. ۱۲Browsed by none but Dian's fawns;
13. ۱۳Underneath large blue-bells tented,
14. ۱۴Where the daisies are rose-scented,
15. ۱۵And the rose herself has got
16. ۱۶Perfume which on earth is not;
17. ۱۷Where the nightingale doth sing
18. ۱۸Not a senseless, tranced thing,
19. ۱۹But divine melodious truth;
20. ۲۰Philosophic numbers smooth;
21. ۲۱Tales and golden histories
22. ۲۲Of heaven and its mysteries.
23. ۲۳
24. ۲۴ Thus ye live on high, and then
25. ۲۵On the earth ye live again;
26. ۲۶And the souls ye left behind you
27. ۲۷Teach us, here, the way to find you,
28. ۲۸Where your other souls are joying,
29. ۲۹Never slumber'd, never cloying.
30. ۳۰Here, your earth-born souls still speak
31. ۳۱To mortals, of their little week;
32. ۳۲Of their sorrows and delights;
33. ۳۳Of their passions and their spites;
34. ۳۴Of their glory and their shame;
35. ۳۵What doth strengthen and what maim.
36. ۳۶Thus ye teach us, every day,
37. ۳۷Wisdom, though fled far away.
38. ۳۸
39. ۳۹ Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
40. ۴۰Ye have left your souls on earth!
41. ۴۱Ye have souls in heaven too,
42. ۴۲Double-lived in regions new!