# Afterwards

- Music: J. W. Mullen
- Words: Mary Mark Lemon
- Licence of the score: Public Domain
- Credit: Typeset by Daniel Johnson for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain)
- Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=903

## 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.”  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).