A REMINISCENCE

    Yes, thou art gone！ and never more Thy sunny smile shall gladden me； But I may pass the old church door, And pace the floor that covers thee,

    May stand upon the cold, damp stone, And think that, frozen, lies below The lightest heart that I have known, The kindest I shall ever know.

    Yet, though I cannot see thee more, 'Tis still a comfort to have seen； And though thy transient life is o'er, 'Tis sweet to think that thou hast been；

    To think a soul so near divine, Within a form so angel fair, United to a heart like thine, Has gladdened once our humble¹ sphere.