Francis William Lauderdale Adams - To An Old Friend In England lyrics

WAS it for nothing in the years gone by, O my love, O my friend, You thrilled me with your noble words of faith? — Hope beyond life, and love, love beyond d**h! Yet now I shudder, and yet you did not die, O my friend, O my love! Was it for nothing in the dear dead years, O my love, O my friend, I kissed you when you wrung my heart from me, And gave my stubborn hand where trust might be? Yet then I smiled, and see, these bitter tears, O my friend, O my love! No bitter words to say to you have I, O my love, O my friend! That faith, that hope, that love was mine, not yours! And yet that kiss, that clasp endures, endures. I have no bitter words to say. Good-bye, O my friend, O my love!