Vanished.
The beautiful summer has vanished,1
The sun lies low in the sky,2
The snow is over the grasses,3
And the days are slipping by.4
I sit by my window idly,5
And watch them come and go :6
But I do not list for your footsteps,7
For you will not come, I know.8
The days and weeks have drifted9
And melted into years,10
Since you held my hand at parting,11
And my voice was choked with tears.12
And when you turned and left me,13
I shivered in mortal pain :14
For I knew in my heart, my darling,15
You never would come again.16
The summer of life has vanished,17
The sun lies low in the sky,18
The snow gleams through my tresses,19
And my youth is slipping by.20
And though I have waited vainly,21
And you never have come to me, 22
We shall walk at last together23
Beside the jasper sea.24