When leaves fall, blooms fade, all drear.
Tell how his boyhood was one drear night-hour, how shone for him, through his griefs and gloom, 10 No star of all heaven sends to light our Path to the tomb.
Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o'clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.
But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night - wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world.
I feel on parting sad and drear, For both of us are strangers here.
Tell how his boyhood was one drear night-hour.