The Bride's Song
" MOTHER mine, keep well! — for now we two must part.
Say not that I've taken all, I pray you have no fears.
Lo, upon the table I am leaving — tears!
While outside more tears shall fall from my saddened heart. "
" Manisma, go then; leave me quite alone!
Leave the flowers you used to tend — who will watch them grow?
Who will plant more in the spring in a pretty row,
Who will water them when all the buds are blown? "
" Some one else must water them! If I unhappy be
Why then should I just for flowers ever weep or sigh? "
" Who will sweep from off the walk leaves that on them lie? "
" If my lover comes no more the dead leaves he won't see! "
Say not that I've taken all, I pray you have no fears.
Lo, upon the table I am leaving — tears!
While outside more tears shall fall from my saddened heart. "
" Manisma, go then; leave me quite alone!
Leave the flowers you used to tend — who will watch them grow?
Who will plant more in the spring in a pretty row,
Who will water them when all the buds are blown? "
" Some one else must water them! If I unhappy be
Why then should I just for flowers ever weep or sigh? "
" Who will sweep from off the walk leaves that on them lie? "
" If my lover comes no more the dead leaves he won't see! "
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