“He will return,” she tells me so
And takes me into her arms;
Gives me kisses, sweet and many
And embraces my whole being.
In a thousand sighs,
Singing me lilting lullabies,
to make me sleep. But how can I?
When she awakes with fractured hopes!

O Father! O Father!
My heart is off in frenzied beats;
Tell me does your beat even once?
Or have they dumped you somewhere deep?
Forlorn I am in thy absence,
Oh Father, O Father!