Gone

S. M. A.     Gone! and there's not a gleam of you,      Faces that float into far away;     Gone! and we can only dream of you      Each as you fade like a star away.     Fade as a star in the sky from us,      Vainly we look for your light again;     Hear ye the sound of a sigh from us?      "Come!" and our hearts will be bright again.     Come! and gaze on our face once more,      Bring us the smiles of the olden days;     Come! and shine in your place once more,      And change the dark into golden days.     Gone! gone! gone! Joy is fled for us;      Gone into the night of the nevermore,     And darkness rests where you shed for us      A light we will miss ~forevermore~.     Faces! ye come in the night to us;      Shadows! ye float in the sky of sleep;     Shadows! ye bring nothing bright to us;      Faces! ye are but the sigh of sleep.     Gone! and there's not a gleam of you,      Faces that float into the far away;     Gone! and we only can dream of you      Till we sink like you and the stars away.