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DO WE LOVE AS WE LOVED LONG AGO?
I.
T was once, long ago, on the dawn-lighted river,
Our fairy canoe rode like foam down the tide;
White lilies afloat with the ripples did quiver,
But fairer than they was the girl at my side.
Now dost thou remember—ah dost thou remember
The garland I wove for that forehead of snow?
Forget the dead leaves of Life's frosty December,
And say, do we love as we loved long ago?
T was once, long ago, on the dawn-lighted river,Our fairy canoe rode like foam down the tide;
White lilies afloat with the ripples did quiver,
But fairer than they was the girl at my side.
Now dost thou remember—ah dost thou remember
The garland I wove for that forehead of snow?
Forget the dead leaves of Life's frosty December,
And say, do we love as we loved long ago?
II.
The robin with song the glad morning was greeting;
No mist rolled above the young sun to eclipse;
"I love thee, I love thee," my heart kept repeating,
The robin with song the glad morning was greeting;
No mist rolled above the young sun to eclipse;
"I love thee, I love thee," my heart kept repeating,
