National Lyrics, and Songs for Music/Come away!
COME AWAY!*[1]
Come away!—the child, where flowers are springing
Round its footsteps on the mountain slope,
Hears a glad voice from the upland singing,
Like the sky-lark's with its tone of hope:
Come away!
Bounding on, with sunny lands before him,
All the wealth of glowing life outspread,
Ere the shadow of a cloud comes o'er him,
By that strain the youth in joy is led:
Come away!
Slowly, sadly, heavy change is falling
O'er the sweetness of the voice within;
Yet its tones, on restless manhood calling,
Urge the hunter still to chase, to win:
Come away!
Come away!—the heart, at last forsaken,
Smile by smile, hath prov'd each hope untrue;
Yet a breath can still those words awaken,
Tho' to other shores far hence they woo:
Come away!
In the light leaves, in the reed's faint sighing,
In the low sweet sounds of early spring,
Still their music wanders—till the dying
Hears them pass, as on a spirit's wing:
Come away!
- ↑ * This song is in the possession of Mr. Power, to be set to music