Whene’er I recollect the happy time

[ZaunköniG]

Whene’er I recollect the happy time
When you and I held converse dear together,
There come a thousand thoughts of sunny weather,
Of early blossoms, and the fresh year’s prime;

Your memory lives forever in my mind
With all the fragant beauties of the spring,
With od’rous lime and silver hawthorn twined,
And many a noonday woodland wandering.

There’s not a thought of you, but brings along
Some sunny dream ofriver, field, and sky;
‘T is wafted on the blackbird’s sunset song,

Or some wild snatch of ancient melody.
And, as I date it still, our love arose
‘Twixt the last violet and the earliest rose.