Witheren - Love's Ghost Lyrics

Among the leaves and the rolls of moonlight
The moon, which weaves lace on the road-white
Among the winds, and among the flowers
Our blithe feet wander - life is ours

Life is ours, and life is loving
All our powers are locked in loving
Hearts, and eyes, and lips are moving
With the ecstasy of loving

Ah! the roses! they are blooming
And the June air, throbbing, tuning
Sings of Love's eternal summer
Chants of Joy, life's only Comer

And we clasp our hands together
Singing in the war, sweet weather
Kissing, thrilling with caressing,
All the sweet from Love's rose pressing

Ah, so easy! - Earth is Heaven
Darkness, shadows, do not live
Like the rose our hearts are given
Like the rose who's bloom is given

To the sun-gold, and the heaven
Not because it wills or wishes
But because 'tis life to give

Dreary, dreary, snow-filled darkness
Heavy, weary, voiceless darkness

We have drifted, drifted, drifted, you and I
Far apart as snows and roses, sea and sky
We have drifted, drifted, drifted, far asunder
Any my lonely voice uplifted in sad wonder
Heavy with its own sad calls

All your love was of the summer
Born to die among the roses
Wither, scatter, like the roses
Leaving me the gray-browed Comer

With the ashes on his forehead
And the winter in his hair
With the footsteps slow and solemn
Going down the endless stair

Joy is gone and you, my Lover
Gone in other ways to hover
Gone among the summer places
Gone to seek for summer faces

Bright-faced Joy was not for me
Born among the snows and pines
Gray-faced Sorrow was to be
Imaged in my mournful lines

Love, not born for cold and sorrow
Only for the sweet sunshine
I shall keep your face forever
Hidden in this heart of mine

In its light, one spot will brighten
Keeping fair the sacred tomb
Like old moonlight it will whiten
The inviolable room

Like the moonlight it will whiten
Softly, all the darkened room
And the broken stalk may put forth
Memory's ghost of Love's old bloom