Safe in their alabaster chambers,
- Safe in their alabaster chambers,
- Untouched by morning and untouched by noon,
- Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,
- Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.
- Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
- Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
- Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence, --
- Ah, what sagacity perished here!
- Grand go the years in the crescent above them;
- Worlds scoop their arcs, and firmaments row,
- Diadems drop and Doges surrender,
- Soundless as dots on a disk of snow.