1. ۱WHISPERS of heavenly death, murmur’d I hear;
2. ۲Labial gossip of night—sibilant chorals;
3. ۳Footsteps gently ascending—mystical breezes, wafted soft and low;
4. ۴Ripples of unseen rivers—tides of a current, flowing, forever flowing;
5. ۵(Or is it the plashing of tears? the measureless waters of human tears?)
6. ۶
7. ۷I see, just see, skyward, great cloud-masses;
8. ۸Mournfully, slowly they roll, silently swelling and mixing;
9. ۹With, at times, a half-dimm’d, sadden’d, far-off star,
10. ۱۰Appearing and disappearing.
11. ۱۱
12. ۱۲(Some parturition, rather—some solemn, immortal birth:
13. ۱۳On the frontiers, to eyes impenetrable,
14. ۱۴Some Soul is passing over.)