O happy school-days that are past and done!

O beautiful friendship, unsoiled by tears!

Restlessly, wearily eager am I—

(Do girls feel thus when about to elope?)—

I leave Harry's home 'neath a star-lit sky,

And my heart beats high with a single hope.

And my heart beats high with a single hope,

Which has come on a sudden when unsought;

In all the wide world there is only scope

For a single hope and a single thought.