And I will play for you,

And I will play for you.

Of old a sigh betray’d your breast,

The courier of your pain,

And just one tear-drop unrepress’d,

Came, shone, and fled again, and fled again.

You lov’d me then,

And when you ask if I can play it yet,

I sit and sound the tender task I never may forget.

And if you falter at the part where long ago you sigh’d,