“ I Cannot Smile Again.”
My heart is breaking ! let me weep.1
Sister ! you plead in vain ;2
Then leave me to my silent grief,3
I cannot smile again.4
Oh, say not I am wrong to mourn,5
And waste my early bloom,6
I would I rested quietly7
In my lost Edmund’s tomb !8
Can I forget the long-tried love9
Of one so true and brave ?10
I care not for the false, cold world,11
My heart is in his
grave.12
Yet you can bid me wear a smile,13
And mingle with the gay ;14
You say that time my grief will heal :15
You know not what you say.16
My heart is breaking ! let me weep.17
Sister ! you plead in vain ;18
Then leave me to my silent grief,19
I cannot smile again.20