Afterwards
Music: J. W. Mullen · Words: Mary Mark Lemon
After the day has sung its song of sorrow,
And one by one the golden stars appear,
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The words
After the day has sung its song of sorrow,
And one by one the golden stars appear,
I linger yet, where once we met,
beloved, And seem to feel thy spirit still is
near. The flow’rs have fled that blossom’d in
that Springtide. The birds are mute,
that sang their songs above, And tho’ the years
have drifted us asunder, Time cannot break
the golden chain of love;
Still we can love, altho’ the shadows gather,
Still we can hope, until the clouds be past,
Come to my heart and whisper thro’ the silence,
“Hope on, dear heart, our lives shall meet at
last.”
Sometimes my heart grows weary of its sadness,
Sometimes my life grows weary of its pain,
Then, love, I wait, and listen for your
whisper, Till fears depart, and sunshine
comes again; It cannot be that we should part
forever, That love’s sweet song is hush’d for
us alway; I hear it yet, altho’ its theme be
altered, ’Twill reach thy heart,
and bring thee back some day,
Love, we can love, altho’ the shadows gather,
Still we can hope, until the clouds be past,
Come to my heart! and whisper thro’ the
silence, “Hope on, dear heart, our lives shall
meet at last;” “Hope on, dear heart,
our lives shall meet at last.”
About this song
- Music
- J. W. Mullen
- Words
- Mary Mark Lemon
- Language
- English, told from its words
- Composed
- 1885
- First published
- in or before 1909, as Mutopia (the edition it was set from) states it
- Length
- 4:00
- Its source files it as
- Romantic
- The score
- The Mutopia Project; Public Domain, as its source states it. Typeset by Daniel Johnson for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain)
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- the United States
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