Khalil Breidi - GOODBYE, MY LOVER, GOODBYE

It was a summer ago when she left me here
A summer of smiles, with never a tear
Till I said to her, with a sob, my dear,
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!

For I loved her, as the stars love night!
And my cheeks for her flashed red and white
When first she called me her Heart's delight,
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!

The touch of her hand was a thing divine
As she sat with me in the soft moonshine
And drank of my love as men drink wine
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!

And never a night as I knelt in prayer
In thought as white as our own souls were,
But in fancy she came and she kissed me there,
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!

But now ah, now! what an empty place
My whole heart is! Of the old embrace
And the kiss I loved there leaves no trace
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!

She sailed not over the stormy sea,
And she went not down in the waves not she
But, she is lost for she married me
Good-bye, my lover; good-bye!

Khalil Breidi

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