And cutting o’ this heart.

Gone! Gone! Aye, thou art gone!

The day is darked, and sun

Hath sorried sore and wrapped him in the dark.

Gone! Gone! This heart doth drip o’ drops

With sorry singing o’ this song.

Gone! Gone! Yea, thou art gone!

And where, beloved, where?

Doth yonder golden shaft o’ light

That pierceth o’ the cloud