Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 34 1833/O Ye Voices

by Felicia Hemans

For other versions of this work, see O Ye Voices.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 34, Pages 858-859

III.

O YE VOICES.

O ye voices round my own hearth singing!
    As the winds of May to memory sweet,
Might I yet return, a worn heart bringing,
    Would those vernal tones the Wanderer greet,
Once again?

Never, never! Spring hath smiled and parted
    Oft since then your fond farewell was said;
O’er the green turf of the gentle-hearted
    Summer's hand the rose-leaves may have shed,
Oft again!

Or if still around my hearth ye linger
    Yet, sweet voices! There must change have come!
Years have quell'd the free soul of the singer,
    Vernal tones shall greet the wanderer home,
Ne'er again!