Littell's Living Age/Volume 133/Issue 1712/Sweet Love is Dead

Sweet Love is dead:
     Where shall we bury him?
In a green bed,
With no stone at his head,
     Nor tears nor prayers to worry him.

Do you think he will sleep,
     Dreamless and quiet?
Yes, if we keep
Silence, nor weep
     O'er the grave where the ground-worms riot.

By his tomb let us part.
     But hush! he is waking!
He bath winged his dart,
And this mock-cold heart
     With the woe of want is aching.

Feign we no more
     Sweet Love lies breathless;
All we forswore
Be as before!
     Death may die, but Love is deathless.

January, 1877.