A Reverie
You 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.