"The winter winds may wildly rave"

THE winter winds may wildly rave,
How wildly o'er thy place of rest!
But, love! thou hast a holier grave
Deep in a faithful human breast.
There, the embalmer, Memory, bends,
Watching, with softly-breathed sighs,
The mystic light her genius lends
To fadeless cheeks and tender eyes.
There in a fathomless calm, serene,
Thy beauty keeps its saintly trace,
The radiance of an angel mien,
The rapture of a heavenly grace.
And there, O gentlest love! remain
(No stormy passion round thee raves),
Till, soul to soul, we meet again.
Beyond this ghostly realm of graves.