We Have Been Friends Together

We have been friends together, 

  In sunshine and in shade; 

Since first beneath the chestnut-trees 

  In infancy we played. 

But coldness dwells within thy heart,

  A cloud is on thy brow; 

We have been friends together— 

  Shall a light word part us now? 

We have been gay together; 

  We have laugh’d at little jests;

For the fount of hope was gushing 

  Warm and joyous in our breasts. 

But laughter now hath fled thy lip, 

  And sullen glooms thy brow; 

We have been gay together—

  Shall a light word part us now? 

We have been sad together, 

  We have wept, with bitter tears, 

O’er the grass-grown graves, where slumber’d 

  The hopes of early years.

The voices which are silent there 

  Would bid thee clear thy brow; 

We have been sad together— 

  Oh! what shall part us now?