She Went Out Singing + 

She went out singing, and the poppies still + 

Crowd round her door awaiting her return; + 

She went out dancing, and the doleful rill + 

Lingers beneath her walls her news to learn. + 

Their love is but a seed of what she has sown; + 

Their grief is but a shadow of my own. + 

O Tomb, O Tomb! did Zahra’s beauty fade, + 

Or dost thou still preserve it in thy gloom? + 

O Tomb, thou art nor firmament nor glade, + 

Yet in thee shines the moon and lilies bloom. + 