Poems (Ryan)/Oh! Why So Sad?
OH! WHY SO SAD?
Oh! why so sad this joyful day? Why weepest thou when all are gay? Their sweetest songs the birds now sing, With mirth glad nature's echoes ring, Vibrating joy from heart to heart Should bid thy sorrows now depart. Why still repine? Life is not long. Come join the happy, joyful throng.
Thus friends oft come and kindly speak, But sorrow's chain they cannot break; For round my heart 'tis linked till death My soul shall free from this sad earth. The past and present o'er me blend, I long to see my journey's end; When silent voices I shall hear And kiss the lips, still true and dear.
From love's bright garland, one by one, The fairest flowers soon were gone, But I've been left, their loss to weep, My lonely vigils e'er to keep. Then blame me not, if I am sad,My careworn heart cannot be glad. Lone in this world, who could remain Without e'er feeling lasting pain?