'She said, she warm'd a student's heart,
⁠But heart and brow 'gan fade:
Alas, alas! those Delphic trees
⁠Do cast an upas shade!

'She said, she lighted happy hearths,
⁠Whose mirth was all forgot:
She said, she tunëd marriage bells,
⁠Which rang when love was not.

'She said, her name was Life; and then
⁠Out laugh'd and wept aloud,—
What time the other being strange
⁠Lifted the veiling shroud.

'Yea! lifted she the veiling shroud,
⁠And breathed the icy breath;
Whereat, with inward shuddering,
⁠I knew her name was Death.