There's something wrong with the world to-day,

What can it be, what can it be?

The morn is at six, and the year's at May,

So mayhap that something is wrong with me.

But there's something wrong,

With the joyous song

Of the thrush in the apple-tree.

There's something gone from my heart I trow!

That then is why, that then is why

The flower seems dead on the orchard bough,