Songs, Merry and Sad






Oblivion

     Green moss will creep
     Along the shady graves where we shall sleep.

     Each year will bring
     Another brood of birds to nest and sing.

     At dawn will go
     New ploughmen to the fields we used to know.

     Night will call home
     The hunter from the hills we loved to roam.

     She will not ask,
     The milkmaid, singing softly at her task,

     Nor will she care
     To know if I were brave or you were fair.

     No one will think
     What chalice life had offered us to drink,

     When from our clay
     The sun comes back to kiss the snow away.

All books are sourced from Project Gutenberg