Oh the tear is in my eye, and my heart it is breaking, <br />Thou hast fled from me, Connor, and left me forsaken; <br />Bright and warm was our morning, but soon has it faded, <br />For I gave thee a true heart, and thou hast betrayed it. <br /> <br />Thy footsteps I followed in darkness and danger, <br />From the home of my love to the land of the stranger; <br />Thou wert mine through the tempest, the blight, and the burning; <br />Could I think thou wouldst change when the morn was returning. <br /> <br />Yet peace to thy heart, though from mine it must sever, <br />May she love thee as I loved, alone and for ever; <br />I may weep for thy loss, but my faith is unshaken, <br />And the heart thou hast widowed will bless thee in breaking.<br /><br />Joseph Rodman Drake<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-oh-the-tear/
