Sweetheart, clasp close your loving arms,
And let us dream of yesterdays,
Of winter's snows and summer's balms,
And all the unforgotten ways.
Sweetheart, let dusky love-locks play
Unheeded o'er your forehead's white;
Let love re-dawn that bygone day,
And flash a glory through the night.
Sweatheart, before we twain must part,
Let fancy touch the golden lyre
That trembled through each passionate heart
And fanned the ever holy fire.
And just because we two must go
Alone, upon diverging ways,
Forget "tomorrows" draped in woe,
And let us dream of "yesterdays."
First published in The Queenslander, 8 May 1897
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
And let us dream of yesterdays,
Of winter's snows and summer's balms,
And all the unforgotten ways.
Sweetheart, let dusky love-locks play
Unheeded o'er your forehead's white;
Let love re-dawn that bygone day,
And flash a glory through the night.
Sweatheart, before we twain must part,
Let fancy touch the golden lyre
That trembled through each passionate heart
And fanned the ever holy fire.
And just because we two must go
Alone, upon diverging ways,
Forget "tomorrows" draped in woe,
And let us dream of "yesterdays."
First published in The Queenslander, 8 May 1897
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
