Should betray thee when sorrows like clouds | Light is my heart since the day we were are arrayed, plighted; Look aloft to the friendship which never Red is my cheek, that they told me was I'll pull you sweet flowers to wear if you Or after you've kissed them they'll lie on my Should they who are dearest-the son of thy I'll fetch from the mountain its breeze to heart, The wife of thy bosom-in sorrow depart, Look aloft from the darkness and dust of the tomb To that soil where affection is ever in bloom. inspire you; And oh, when Death comes in his terrors to armor; sing you sweet songs till the stars rise love me. His fears on the future, his pall on the past, In that moment of darkness, with hope in Then, wandering, I'll wish you in silence to thy heart THE WELCOME. We'll look through the trees at the cliff and the eyrie; We'll tread round the rath on the track of HOME in the evening or come in the We'll look on the stars, and we'll list to the Come when you're looked for or come with- Till you ask of your darling what gift you Kisses and welcome you'll find here before Oh, she'll whisper you, "Love as unchange- you; And the oftener you come here, the more I'll And trust, when in secret, most tunefully streaming, adore you. Till the starlight of heaven above us shall If with no lawless fire it gleamed, quiver But through the dews of kindness beamed, As our souls flow in one down eternity's That eye shall be for ever bright Come when you're looked for or come with- If Falsehood's honey it disdained, you; adore you. |