Chill breezes moaning are
Where leaves hang yellow:
O’er the grey hills afar
Flies the last swallow;
To came again, my love, to came again
Blithe with the summer.
But Ah! the long months ere we welcome then
That bright new comer.
Cold lie the flowers and dead
Where leaves are falling.
Meekly they bowed and sped
At Autumn’s calling.
To come again, my love, to come again
Blithe with the swallow,
Ah? might I dreaming lie at rest till then,
Or rise and follow!
The summer blooms are gone,
And bright birds darting;
Cold lies the earth forlorn;
And we are parting,
To meet again, my love, to meet again
in deathless greeting,
But ah! what wintry bitterness of pain
Ere that far meeting!