1. ۱Thy soul shall find itself alone
2. ۲'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone
3. ۳Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
4. ۴Into thine hour of secrecy.
5. ۵Be silent in that solitude
6. ۶ Which is not loneliness--for then
7. ۷The spirits of the dead who stood
8. ۸ In life before thee are again
9. ۹In death around thee--and their will
10. ۱۰Shall overshadow thee: be still.
11. ۱۱The night--tho' clear--shall frown--
12. ۱۲And the stars shall not look down
13. ۱۳From their high thrones in the Heaven,
14. ۱۴With light like Hope to mortals given--
15. ۱۵But their red orbs, without beam,
16. ۱۶To thy weariness shall seem
17. ۱۷As a burning and a fever
18. ۱۸Which would cling to thee forever.
19. ۱۹Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish--
20. ۲۰Now are visions ne'er to vanish--
21. ۲۱From thy spirit shall they pass
22. ۲۲No more--like dew-drops from the grass.
23. ۲۳The breeze--the breath of God--is still--
24. ۲۴And the mist upon the hill
25. ۲۵Shadowy--shadowy--yet unbroken,
26. ۲۶ Is a symbol and a token--
27. ۲۷ How it hangs upon the trees,
28. ۲۸ A mystery of mysteries!