You, who have been gone for years.

And I feel as I sit here thinking

That the hand of a dead old June

Has reached out hold of my loose heartstrings,

And is drawing them up in tune.

I am tired, and that old sorrow

Sweeps down on the bed of my soul,

As a turbulent river might suddenly break

Away from a dam’s control.

It beareth a wreck on its bosom,