Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely- flowers,

And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.
If I could dwell

Where Israfel
Hath dwelt, and he where I,
He might not sing so wildly well

A mortal melody,
While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.