In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 116

Is it, then, regret for buried time

         That keenlier in sweet April wakes,

         And meets the year, and gives and takes

The colours of the crescent prime?

Not all: the songs, the stirring air,

         The life re-orient out of dust,

         Cry thro' the sense to hearten trust

In that which made the world so fair.

Not all regret: the face will shine

         Upon me, while I muse alone;

         And that dear voice, I once have known,

Still speak to me of me and mine:

Yet less of sorrow lives in me

         For days of happy commune dead;

         Less yearning for the friendship fled,

Than some strong bond which is to be.