Poems (Hoffman)/Lost Hope
LOST HOPE.
The flowers will all come back again,The flowers that faded on hill and plain;The birds will return another Spring,The birds that a while have ceased to sing;But Hope that died with their song and bloomWill wake no more from its Winter tomb.
The stars will twinkle another night,The stars that faded before our sight;And the sun that sank in the sorrowful westShall wake like the birds from their nightly rest;But Hope that illumined the day and nightHas faded forever, forever, from sight.