With me one little year ago—

The chill weight of the winter snow

For months upon her grave has lain:

And now, when summer south winds blow

And brier and harebell bloom again,

I tread the pleasant paths we trod,

I see the violet-sprinkled sod

Whereon she leaned, too frail and weak

The hillside flowers she loved to seek,

Yet following me where'er I went