Your Sunny Smile.
In summer when the skies were blue
And sunshine bathed the land with light,
When friends were mine whom I deemed true
And Life seemed pleasant to my sight,
With sunny smile you came to me
And promised love and fealty.
Fairer than sunbeams did appear
The sunshine of your smile to me,
The love-light in your eyes more clear
Than all the light on land and sea,
And all my heart went out to you—
I loved you and believed you true.
The sun withdrew, and all the land
Grew dark, the world spoke harsh of me,
Friends fell away on every hand,
I mourned them not, I still had thee;
But when I sought you in my need
Your love proved but a broken reed.
’Twas but a cloud, and soon it passed,
The sun shone fairer than before;
Old friends returned, even you at last
Smiled on me as in days of yore,
But I had learned in that dark while
To live without your sunny smile.
