Again the Year has Come to the Spring

Again the year has come to the Spring

And everywhere is Nature's awakening.

Again the sun has freed the streams

and pierced the leaden skies.

I smell the perfume of the earth,

I hear the calling of the birds,

And I am still alone with my shattered love!

Again my days are heavy with fear,

No ray of hope in this terrible darkness

Again my life is filled with tears

despair is in my heart.

Four times have the robins gathered their twigs

And Nature spread out her coloured carpet

Since the blessed days of peace and happiness,

When my sweetheart and I plighted our troth

And my father beamed on our love.

But now! But now!

The days drag on with never a word

Is he living or dead?

Here in my loneliness none can console me,

And the ache in my breast -

Time has not healed

Here in my sorrowing no friend to aid me

Ah, suffering! Thy name is woman in wartime.

The fears of the day turn to spectres at night,

Dead soldiers marching by

place their cold hands in mine

Oh save me my lover come back to me now,

Ere misery and yearning destroy me.