Parerga/Heavily o'er us the Shadows are Closing
< Parerga
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PART II.
SONGS,
&c. &c.
"NON ITA CERTANDI CUPIDUS QUAM PROPTER AMOREM."
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HEAVILY O'ER US THE SHADOWS ARE CLOSING.
Air—"ROUSSEAU'S DREAM."
Heavily o'er us the shadows are closing,
Dreary and chill sounds the fast-falling rain;
Hence to the pillow that knows no reposing,
Hence, Love, never to view thee again!
Parted for ever
Fate bids us sever,
Never, oh never
To meet, Love, again!
Dreary and chill sounds the fast-falling rain;
Hence to the pillow that knows no reposing,
Hence, Love, never to view thee again!
Parted for ever
Fate bids us sever,
Never, oh never
To meet, Love, again!
Never again at the long day's decaying
Glad shall I watch for thy welcome of bliss,
View the soft smile o'er thy gentle lip playing,
Thrill 'neath the fondness that glow'd in thy kiss.
Hopeless the morrow
Must dawn o'er my sorrow.
Why should Love borrow
Anguish like this?
​Glad shall I watch for thy welcome of bliss,
View the soft smile o'er thy gentle lip playing,
Thrill 'neath the fondness that glow'd in thy kiss.
Hopeless the morrow
Must dawn o'er my sorrow.
Why should Love borrow
Anguish like this?
O'er my cold heart when the long grass is waving,
Swept by the night-breeze that sighs round my head,
Mourn not for one whom them shrinkest from saving,
Calm let me rest in that sorrowless bed.
Misery steeping
My lone life in weeping,
Harms not the sleeping
The sleep of the Dead.
Swept by the night-breeze that sighs round my head,
Mourn not for one whom them shrinkest from saving,
Calm let me rest in that sorrowless bed.
Misery steeping
My lone life in weeping,
Harms not the sleeping
The sleep of the Dead.