WHY DO I WEEP FOR THEE?

WORDS BY

GEORGE LINLEY.

COMPOSED BY

W. V. WALLACE.

SUNG BY

MISS CATHARINE HAYES.

Published by permission of Lee & Walker, 162 Chestnut Street,

Publishers and Importers of Music and Musical Instruments.

Why do I weep for thee?

Why weep in my sad dreams?

Parted for aye are we,

Yes! parted like mountain streams.

Yet with me lingers still

That word, that one last word,

Thy voice, thy voice yet seems to thrill

The heart’s fond chord.

Why do I weep for thee?

Why do I weep for thee?

II.

Once, ah! what joy to share

With thee the noontide hour;

Then, not a grief nor care

Had canker’d the heart’s young flow’r

The sun seems not to shed

A radiance o’er me now,

Save mem’ry all seems dead,

Since lost, since lost art thou.

Why do I weep for thee?

Why do I weep for thee?