Substitution

EN some beloved voice that was to

Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly,

And silence, against which you dare not cry,

Aches round you like a strong disease and new—What hope ? what help ? what music will

That silence to your sense ?

Not friendship's sigh,

Not reason's subtle count; not

Of viols, nor of pipes that Faunus blew;

Not songs of poets, nor of

Whose hearts leap upward through the

To the clear moon; nor yet the spheric

Self-chanted, nor the angels' sweet ' All hails,'Met in the smile of God: nay, none of these.

Speak

OU, availing Christ !—and fill this pause.