(A Backwoods Ballad)

Spring, summer, autumn, winter,

Over the wild world rolls the year.

Comes June to the rose-red tamarack buds,

But Marjory comes not here.

The pastures miss her; the house without her

Grows forgotten, and gray, and old;

The wind, and the lonely light of the sun,

Are heavy with tears untold.

Spring, summer, autumn, winter,