A Parting Sigh

 When I am free

Where'er I do fly

I am beneath so far,

Mine soul does cry.

All is lost

Joy ephemeral

O gone is my bliss

With sorrow I do kiss

Your timorous being.

Disgorge my overflowing heart

As such can I never salvage

My efflorescent mind.

But then my blissful soul you prove

Pleasures and pain you move.

O pity me

If by constant tenderness

Ah! Cruel evening breeze

Which made me freeze!

Sorrow is my friend

Sleeping there at my end

Never wanting for a parting sigh

I fall and softly die.

Now Canst Thou Hear

 Now canst thou hear

O all manners of delight

Shaped with bosom near

All brass and bright.

With great nature I adore

What can'tst I bear I ignore

For ether is unveiled

Is surely Day quite revealed?

Longing for to love today,

I mourn and weep- 

Unfound my way.

And in that curse I find myself-

A cry to keep-

Inside, my mirth.

Joy is nigh where great grief waits

All hung above in my fates

And to this life I see

A reflection that is me.

All lost is what I see

A tune that's longing to be free

With joy a distant memory,

I fall into the darkened sea.

Music is a soothing care

Where I follow it near to there

A somber sleep with me does fall

With voices' shadows me do call.

And if I slumber before I dare

To dream up high 

All in the air.

The sun falls down and tells the tale

Of around my mournful fate

To which I cannot escape.

So where the metal horns do sound

A cry!   And wrap around

I hear their great delight

But I am fallen back in time

My mind and self only mine.

A day will come 

When I will pass a weary trodden path

And I will choose which way I go

A hand my own self soothes

And I will come again to this place anew.