Sympathy

There should be no despair for you

While nightly stars are burning

While evening pours its silent dew

And sunshine gilds the morning

There should be no despair though tears

May flow down like a river

Are not the best beloved of years

Around your heart forever?

They weep you weep it must be so

Winds sigh as you are sighing

And winter sheds its grief in snow

When autumn leaves are lying

Yet these revive and from their fate

Your fate cannot be parted

Then journey on if not elate

Then never broken-hearted!