Musical garland/O Life is like a summer flower

O Life is like a summer flower.

Oh! life is like a summer flower,
Blooming but to wither;
Oh! love is like an April shower,
Tears and smiles together:
And hope is but a vipour light,
The lovers worst deceiver;
Before him now it dances bright,
And now is gone for ever.

Oh! joy is but a passing ray,
Lovers hearts beguiling;
A gleam that cheers a winter’s day,
Just a moment smiling;
But though in hopeless, dark despair,
The thread of life may sever;
Yet while it beats, dear maid, I swear,
My heart is thine forever.

FINIS.