It was a summer ago when she left me here <br />A summer of smiles, with never a tear <br />Till I said to her, with a sob, my dear, <br />Good-bye, my lover; good-bye! <br /> <br />For I loved her, as the stars love night! <br />And my cheeks for her flashed red and white <br />When first she called me her Heart's delight, <br />Good-bye, my lover; good-bye! <br /> <br />The touch of her hand was a thing divine <br />As she sat with me in the soft moonshine <br />And drank of my love as men drink wine <br />Good-bye, my lover; good-bye! <br /> <br />And never a night as I knelt in prayer <br />In thought as white as our own souls were, <br />But in fancy she came and she kissed me there, <br />Good-bye, my lover; good-bye! <br /> <br />But now ah, now! what an empty place <br />My whole heart is! Of the old embrace <br />And the kiss I loved there leaves no trace <br />Good-bye, my lover; good-bye! <br /> <br />She sailed not over the stormy sea, <br />And she went not down in the waves not she <br />But, she is lost for she married me <br />Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!<br /><br />Khalil Breidi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/goodbye-my-lover-goodbye/
