No more carols the sweet nightingale
A. Gretchaninov
No more carols the sweet nightingale
Stars are gleaming on high o'er the vale
And the moonbeams that peer thro' the trees
Set the dewdrops alight on the leas.
Cool and restful, night lulls all around
Was't a whisper? No there's not a sound;
It was only a leaf falling here
At my feet, that arrested mine ear
There's a spell to the Spring night unknown
in my charm, my beloved, my own!
Ah! fair night, fairer dream, now delay!
Why, O why must you e'ver fade away?