What means the lonely tear?

What means the lonely tear?

Which dims my saddened gaze?

A remnant, 'tis the last,

Of early, bygone days.

'Tis one of many sisters,

Who long ago were shed,

O'er former joys and sorrows,

In wind and darkness fled.

Like vapoury clouds dissolving,

Those azure stars are gone,

Which one each joy and sorrows,

Once on my eyelids shone.

And even my love has melted

Away in empty air,

Then go, thou lonely teardrop,

Go thou and and join it there.