John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). The Poetical Works in Four Volumes. 1892.
Appendix II. Poems Printed in the Life of WhittierOn A Fly-Leaf of Longfellows Poems: Hushed now the sweet consoling tongue
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Of him whose lyre the Muses strung;
His last low swan-song has been sung!
As clouds that rake the mountains here,
We too shall pass and disappear.
Not even a wreath of mist is lost,
No atom can itself exhaust.
Live on and run its endless course
In God’s unlimited universe.
To fade like clouds from lake and stream,
Shall brighten in a holier beam.