Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)/Song ("She sat and sang alway")

by Christina Georgina Rossetti

For works with similar titles, see Song.

SONG.

She sat and sang alwayBy the green margin of a stream,Watching the fishes leap and playBeneath the glad sunbeam.

I sat and wept alwayBeneath the moon's most shadowy beam,Watching the blossoms of the MayWeep leaves into the stream.

I wept for memory:She sang for hope that is so fair:My tears were swallowed by the sea;Her songs died on the air.