True thoughts, your days of grief are done,

And wake, with the voice of your restless commotion,Sad thoughts of the home 1 must visit no more.From the far distant land which has spurned me for ever,The land for whose glory I’ve struggled in vain,Ye come, O ye waves, but like me ye can never,O! never return to behold it again!Thou, bird, that dost…

Let young hearts meetIn converse sweet,At twilight’s time, in the summer weather:By the pale light of the thoughtful moon,When all is hushed, save the sighing breeze;In a still and balmy night of June,Under the leaves of the linden trees.There song shall awake its softest tones,Opening all the soul to pleasure;At silent eveOur feet shall weaveThe…

Merrily O! Merrily O!I light my lamp, and forth I go!And to lure astray the lated wight,I shine all night in the swampy hollows,Merrily O! Merrily O!Wailing and woe to the fool who follows!O! Love and Friendship and I make three,We roam together in company!Merrily O! Merrily O!We light our lamps, and forth we go!Friendship…

For the bliss of life is loving,Ere the days of youth are flownAnd old age is Love’s undoing,Passion fades away with time,So we’ll go again a-wooing,While our hearts are in their prime.So we’ll go again a-wooing, &c. &c.The frowns of Fortune grieve us,And Ambition is a cheat,And the lures of Hope deceive us,Though her visions…

By the green bank of that rippling river,Under the shade of yon tall beech tree.Bury me there, ye lovers of song,When the prayers for the dead are spoken,With my hands on my breast,My face to the west,And my lyre in the grave unbroken!There, untouched by the plough or harrow,Let the grave of the minstrel be,Where…

Thou know’st with love and fearI bend before Thy mighty throne,And before Thee I hold myself as nought.Alas! I’m in the world alone,All desolate upon the earth,And when my spirit hears the tone,The soft song of the birds in mirth,When the young nightingalesTheir tender voices blend,When from the flowery valesTheir hymns of love ascend;O! then…