Pebbles and Shells (Hawkes collection)/Sweet Smiling Lips

by Clarence Hawkes

SWEET SMILING LIPS

Sweet smiling lips, so wan and white,
That yester morn were laughing light
Oh! tell me has her spirit fled,
Or does my loved one sleep instead?
Oh! will she wake with morning bright
Sweet smiling lips?

But one brief day has taken flight,
Since love redeemed its holy plight
But now all happiness has sped,
Sweet smiling lips.

Yet yesterday when we were wed
I thought the simple words you said
Were something Time could never blight;
But now that dream has vanished quite.
Oh! come back flushing, blushing red
And tell me that she is not dead,
Sweet smiling lips.