Oh! the days are gone, when Beauty bright
My heart's chain wove;
When my dream of life, from morn till night,
Was love, still love.
New hope may bloom,
And days may come,
Of milder, calmer beam,
But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream;
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
Tho’ the bard to purer fame may soar,
When wild youth's past;
Tho’ he win the wise, who frowned before,
To smile at last;
He'll never meet
A joy so sweet,
In all his noon of fame,
As when first he sung to woman's ear
His soul-felt flame,
And, at every close, she blushed to hear
The one lov'd name.
No,— that hallowed form is ne'er forgot
Which first love traced;
Still it lingering haunts the greenest spot
On memory's waste.
‘ Twas odor fled
As soon as shed;
‘ Twas morning's winged dream;
‘ Twas a light, that ne'er can shine again
On life's dull stream:
Oh!‘ twas light that ne'er can shine again
On life's dull stream.