Poems (Craik)/When Green Leaves come again

by Dinah Maria Craik

WHEN GREEN LEAVES COME AGAIN.

SONG.

HEN green leaves come again, my love,
 When green leaves come again,—
Why put on such a cloudy face,
 When green leaves come again'

Ah, this spring will be like the last,
 Of promise false and vain;
And summer die in winter's arms
 Ere green leaves come again.

"So slip the seasons—and our lives:
 'T is idle to complain:
But yet I sigh, I scarce know why,
 When green leaves come again."

Nay, lift up thankful eyes, my sweet!
 Count equal, loss and gain:
Because, as long as the world lasts,
 Green leaves will come again.

For, sure as earth lives under snows,
 And Love lives under pain,
'T is good to sing with everything,
 "When green leaves come again."