SORROWFUL FREEDOM
Longdays I begged of my heart to beReleased from a love that hauntedme—The memory of a last embrace,A tyrannous and a lovely face.“Free me,” I said, “from an old love,The memory and the mightthereof—Free to follow and take my fillOf beauty and laughter where I will.”Never a word my heart replied:But on a day the old love died;Vanished, never to come again,All the passion and all the pain.Come—we are free to take our fillOf beauty and laughter where wewill—O heart, are we free forevermoreFrom the old sorrow we loved before!
Longdays I begged of my heart to beReleased from a love that hauntedme—The memory of a last embrace,A tyrannous and a lovely face.“Free me,” I said, “from an old love,The memory and the mightthereof—Free to follow and take my fillOf beauty and laughter where I will.”Never a word my heart replied:But on a day the old love died;Vanished, never to come again,All the passion and all the pain.Come—we are free to take our fillOf beauty and laughter where wewill—O heart, are we free forevermoreFrom the old sorrow we loved before!
Longdays I begged of my heart to beReleased from a love that hauntedme—The memory of a last embrace,A tyrannous and a lovely face.
Longdays I begged of my heart to be
Released from a love that hauntedme—
The memory of a last embrace,
A tyrannous and a lovely face.
“Free me,” I said, “from an old love,The memory and the mightthereof—Free to follow and take my fillOf beauty and laughter where I will.”
“Free me,” I said, “from an old love,
The memory and the mightthereof—
Free to follow and take my fill
Of beauty and laughter where I will.”
Never a word my heart replied:But on a day the old love died;Vanished, never to come again,All the passion and all the pain.
Never a word my heart replied:
But on a day the old love died;
Vanished, never to come again,
All the passion and all the pain.
Come—we are free to take our fillOf beauty and laughter where wewill—O heart, are we free forevermoreFrom the old sorrow we loved before!
Come—we are free to take our fill
Of beauty and laughter where wewill—
O heart, are we free forevermore
From the old sorrow we loved before!