Parting

Tonight we part forever, though it fills my heart with pain; Love’s ties tonight you sever, my cup of joy you drain. Pondering o’er the past I weep—no smiles for me you’ve shown; Where roses grew now dark weeds creep, and I am sad and lone. Though tonight we part, I shed no tears, so strange to you ’twill seem, That I think of departed years and all that might have been; Of happy days and faded flowers, of a heart that once was true; Of joyful and dreary hours as I bid you, my love, adieu.