Watch with me, love, tonight!

This is the last time we meet,

For I must leave thee, O my sweet,

Our fate is fixed, our dream is o'er,

Our ways lie parted evermore!

The fault was mine, be mine the pain!

To never see thy face again,

To watch by wood and wild and shore

We two together nevermore!

My heart is torn, my brain is fire,

Thou art my life, my sole desire,

My queen, my crown, my prize, my goal,

Heart of my heart, sun of my soul,

Farewell! Farewell! It must be so,

But kiss me once before I go,

Only this once, dear love, good-bye,

But I shall love thee, till I die.

Dear heart, those days were bright!

But we have lost their light,

But, O beloved, watch with me tonight.

So blithely sang the blackbird

On the hawthorn bough,

On the snowwhite hawthorn bough,

So sadly sat the maiden

'mid the flow'rs below,

'mid the newborn flow'rs below.

Oh! Never heed the lost love,

For when the year is cold,

The wing of Spring will waft us

A new love worth the old;

But she said: "I hold of all the flowers

That ever died or grew,

One teardrop of the old love worth

The snowdrops of the new

One teardrop of the old love worth

The snowdrops of the new."

So silent sat the blackbird

On the hawthorn bough,

On the barren hawthorn bough,

So blithely sang the maiden through the snow

As she wandered through the snow:

"He left me in the summer

When the fickle birds were gay,

But he's back again in winter

When their songs have died away;

For ah! there's but one love,

And the one love is the true,

And there ne'er can be new love,

For the old love is the new.

There ne'er can be new love,

For the old love is the new."