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Domestic Love 2 - ZaunköniG - 08.07.2007
The Same
When those we love are absent – far away,
When those we love have met some hapless fate,
How pours the heart its lone and plaintive lay,
As the wood-songster mourns her stolen mate!
Alas! the summer bower – how desolate!
The winter hearth – how dim its fire appears!
While the pale memories of by-gone years
Around our thoughts like spectral shadows wait.
How changed the picture! here, they all are parted
To meet no more, -the true, the gentle-hearted!!
The old have journeyed to their bourne; the young
Wander, if living, distant lands among;
And now wee rest our dearest hopes above;
For heavenly joy alone can match domestic love!