A Voice in the Night

That echo melting away in its own wistfulness!

A woman's voice? A child hurt in a play?

The voice retreating from the stage of starlight

Into the wings of night, finale of hush

As the heart dies. Dies in the play? or dies

In the breast following the echo beyond life?

What charm, what sweetness, what divine despair,

Has for an instant made me feel again,

Who have lain so long alone in the grave of the world?