Conclusion

The songs Love sang to us are dead:

Yet shall he sing to us again,

When the dull days are wrapped in lead,

And the red woodland drips with rain.

The lily of our love is gone,

That touched our spring with golden scent;

Now in the garden low upon

The wind-stripped way its stalk is bent.

Our rose of dreams is passed away,

That lit our summer with sweet fire;

The storm beats bare each thorny spray,

And its dead leaves are trod in mire.

The songs Love sang to us are dead;

Yet shall he sing to us again,

When the dull days are wrapped in lead,

And the red woodland drips with rain.

The marigold of memory

Shall fill our autumn then with glow;

Haply its bitterness will be

Sweeter than love of long ago.

The cypress of forgetfulness

Shall haunt our winter with its hue;

The apathy to us not less

Dear than the dreams our summer knew.