S. M. A.

Gone! and there's not a gleam of you,

Faces that float into far away;

Gone! and we can only dream of you

Each as you fade like a star away.

Fade as a star in the sky from us,

Vainly we look for your light again;

Hear ye the sound of a sigh from us?

“Come!” and our hearts will be bright again.

Come! and gaze on our face once more,

Bring us the smiles of the olden days;

Come! and shine in your place once more,

And change the dark into golden days.

Gone! gone! gone! Joy is fled for us;

Gone into the night of the nevermore,

And darkness rests where you shed for us

A light we will miss ~ forevermore ~.

Faces! ye come in the night to us;

Shadows! ye float in the sky of sleep;

Shadows! ye bring nothing bright to us;

Faces! ye are but the sigh of sleep.

Gone! and there's not a gleam of you,

Faces that float into the far away;

Gone! and we only can dream of you

Till we sink like you and the stars away.