My Playmate

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1. The pines were dark on Ramoth hill,
2. Their song was soft and low;
3. The blossoms in the sweet May wind
4. Were falling like the snow.
5. The blossoms drifted at our feet,
6. The orchard birds sang clear;
7. The sweetest and the saddest day
8. It seemed of all the year.
9. For, more to me than birds or flowers,
10. My playmate left her home,
11. And took with her the laughing spring,
12. The music and the bloom.
13. She kissed the lips of kith and kin,
14. She laid her hand in mine:
15. What more could ask the bashful boy
16. Who fed her father's kine?
17. She left us in the bloom of May:
18. The constant years told o'er
19. Their seasons with as sweet May morns,
20. But she came back no more.
21. I walk, with noiseless feet, the round
22. Of uneventful years;
23. Still o'er and o'er I sow the spring
24. And reap the autumn ears.
25. She lives where all the golden year
26. Her summer roses blow;
27. The dusky children of the sun
28. Before her come and go.