National Lyrics, and Songs for Music/Oh! ye Voices
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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 heart ye linger,
Yet, sweet voices! there must change have come;
Years have quelled the free soul of the singer,
Vernal tones shall greet the Wanderer home,
Ne’er again!