Canto XIX

The Danube to the Severn gave

      The darken'd heart that beat no more;

      They laid him by the pleasant shore,

And in the hearing of the wave.

There twice a day the Severn fills,

      The salt sea-water passes by,

      And hushes half the babbling Wye,

And makes a silence in the hills.

The Wye is hush'd nor moved along;

      And hush'd my deepest grief of all,

      When fill'd with tears that cannot fall,

I brim with sorrow drowning song,

The tide flows down, the wave again

      Is vocal in its wooded walls:

      My deeper anguish also falls,

And I can speak a little then.