You’ll feebly sleek your hair of grey,
    And mutter words that none may know,
And dream you touch the sodden clay
    That laps the dream of long ago.

The shrinking ash may fall apart
    And show a gleam that lingers yet.
A moment in your cooling heart
    May shine a sparkle of regret.

And where the pit is chill and deep,
    And bones are mouldering in the clay,
A thrill of buried love will creep
    And shudder aimlessly away.