“Did You Never Know?”

Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me —

That your love would never lessen and never go?

You were young then, proud and fresh-hearted,

You were too young to know.

Fate is a wind, and red leaves fly before it

Far apart, far away in the gusty time of year —

Seldom we meet now, but when I hear you speaking,

I know your secret, my dear, my dear.