YEAR AFTER YEAR.
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YEAR AFTER YEAR:
A LOVE SONG.
EAR after year the cowslips fill the meadow, Year after year the skylarks thrill the air,
Year after year, in sunshine or in shadow,
Rolls the world round, love, and finds us as we were.
Year after year, as sure as birds' returning,
Or field-flowers' blossoming above the wintry mould,
Year after year, in work, or mirth, or mourning,
Love we with love's own youth, that never can grow old.
Or field-flowers' blossoming above the wintry mould,
Year after year, in work, or mirth, or mourning,
Love we with love's own youth, that never can grow old.
Sweetheart and ladye-love, queen of boyish passion,
Strong hope of manhood, content of age begun;
Loved in a hundred ways, each in a different fashion,
Yet loved supremely, solely, as we never love but one.
Strong hope of manhood, content of age begun;
Loved in a hundred ways, each in a different fashion,
Yet loved supremely, solely, as we never love but one.
