Poems and Songs By Robert Gilfillan. Fourth edition. With memoir of the author, and appendix of his latest pieces |
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[They will come! they will come! the bright flowers]
They will come! they will come! the bright flowers,
In sunlight and beauty all gay;
But they bring not the fond happy hours,
Nor music of years passed away!
In sunlight and beauty all gay;
But they bring not the fond happy hours,
Nor music of years passed away!
The spring-time! I hailed it with gladness—
Its songs and its sweet flowery bloom;
But now I behold it with sadness—
It wakes not the sleep of the tomb!
Its songs and its sweet flowery bloom;
But now I behold it with sadness—
It wakes not the sleep of the tomb!
They are gone! they are gone! the light-hearted,
That gladdened life's blithe early day—
The young and the gay have departed,
The loved and the leal are away!
That gladdened life's blithe early day—
The young and the gay have departed,
The loved and the leal are away!
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Oh! spring flowers are sweet softly waving,
And summer has blossoms in store,
But rather the wintry winds raving,
When friendship and love are no more!
And summer has blossoms in store,
But rather the wintry winds raving,
When friendship and love are no more!
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