Heavy hangs the raindrop

Heavy hangs the raindrop

From the burdened spray

Heavy broods the damp mist

On uplands far away

Heavy looms the dull sky

Heavy rolls the sea

And heavy beats the young heart

Beneath that lonely tree

Never has a blue streak

Cleft the clouds since morn

Never has his grim fate

Smiled since he was born

Frowning on the infant,

Shadowing childhood's joy

Guardian angel knows not

That melancholy boy

Day is passing swiftly

Its sad and sombre prime

Youth is fast invading

Sterner manhood's'time

All the flowers are praying

For sun before they close

And he prays too unknowing

That sunless human rose

Blossoms that the west-wind

Has never wooed to blow

Scentless are thy petals

Your dew as cold as snow

Soul, where kindred kindness

No early promise woke

Barren is your beauty

As weed upon the rock

Whither brother whither

Your life was vainly given

Earth reserves no blessing

For the unblessed of heaven