III + 

Or, heedless of the leaves’ return + 

Which Autumn late to earth consigned, + 

Do we alone our losses mourn + 

Of which the rustling woods remind? + 

Or, when anew all Nature teems, + 

Do we foresee in troubled dreams + 

The coming of life’s Autumn drear. + 

For which no springtime shall appear? + 

Or, it may be, we inly seek, + 

Wafted upon poetic wing, + 

Some other long-departed Spring, + 

Whose memories make the heart beat quick + 

With thoughts of a far distant land, + 

Of a strange night when the moon and⁠— + 