A Reverie + 

Yon may speak of a grave in a distant land, + 

Or of one ’neath ocean’s foam, + 

Where the dolphins play o’er the sunny spray, + 

Far from the dear old home; + 

Where the coral peaks form a glorious tomb, + 

And the mighty waters lave, + 

But there is naught in the wide world sought + 

Like the heart’s deep anguished grave. + 

You may tell of a grave ’neath the burning sands + 

Of the tropics fevered zone; + 

Where silence reigns o’er the desert plains + 

So desolate, so forlorn. + 

Where the lion’s roar is the liveliest sound + 

That o’er that waste is heard⁠— + 

And the forest bird hymns a plaintive lay, + 

A requiem for the dead. + 

Again you may tell of a grave unsought + 

Far from the home of youth; + 

Where the willow weeps as the exile sleeps + 

Akin to Mother Earth. + 

But O! methinks, there’s not a woe + 

That can the bosom cleave, + 

Or as deeply wound, as the lowly mound + 

O’er the heart’s deep, anguished grave. + 