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When murmured sighs and joyous tears,
Dropping like rain,
Discoursed my love and told how loved
I was again.
Farewell!
'Twas not in cold and measured phrase
We gave our passion name;
Scorning such tedious eloquence,
Our heart's fond flame
And long imprisoned feelings fast
In deep sobs came.
Farewell!
Would that our love had been the love
That merest worldlings know,
When passion's draught to our doomed lips
Turns utter woe,
And our poor dream of happiness
Vanishes so!
Farewell!
But in the wreck of all our hopes,
There's yet some touch of bliss,
