• Hath not the dark stream closed above thy head,
    With envy of thy light, thou shining one?
    Hast thou not, murmuring, made thy dreamless bed
    Where blooms the asphodel, far from all sun?
    But thou—thou dost obtain oblivious ease,
    While here we rock and moan—thy funeral trees.

    Have we not flung our tresses on the stream?
    Hath not thy friend...