<P> The second stanza maintains the quiet, even tone of the first, but serves to undermine the former's sense of the eternal by revealing that Lucy has, by the time of composition, died . The narrator's response to her death lacks bitterness or emptiness; and instead takes consolation from the fact that she is now beyond life's trials: </P> <Dl> <Dd> No motion has she now, no force; </Dd> <Dd> She neither hears nor sees; </Dd> <Dd> Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, </Dd> <Dd> With rocks, and stones, and trees . (lines 5--8) </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> No motion has she now, no force; </Dd> <Dd> She neither hears nor sees; </Dd>

Meaning of the poem a slumber did my spirit seal