A bell tolls on in my heart
  As though in my ears a knell
  Had ceased for awhile to swell,
  But the sense of it would not part
  From the spirit that bears its part
  In the chime of the soundless bell.

  Ah dear dead singer of sorrow,
  The burden is now not thine
  That grief bade sound for a sign
  Through the songs of the night whose morrow
  Has risen, and I may not borrow
  A beam from its radiant shrine.

  The burden has dropped from thee
  That grief on thy life bound fast;
  The winter is over and past
  Whose end thou wast fain to see.
  Shall sorrow not comfort me
  That is thine no longer--at last?

  Good day, good night, and good morrow,
  Men living and mourning say.
  For thee we could only pray
  That night of the day might borrow
  Such comfort as dreams lend sorrow:
  Death gives thee at last good day.