My days are done, as the darkness
drops from the wings of the night,
As a feather is wafted downwards
from the eagle in his flight.
Do you see the lights of my pyre
as it gleams through the rain and the mist,
Do you feel the saddness coming over you,
Do you feel that your soul can't resist?
But a feeling of sadness and longing,
is not equal to pain,
I resemble the sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
Come read to yourself some of my poems,
For they are all my heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe your restless feeling,
And drive the thoughts away.
My distant footsteps shall echo
Through your corridors of Time.
For life's endless toil and endeavor;
And to-night I will have mine.
Or read the poem of my pensive mind,
and the songs gushing from my burning heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
the tears from the your eyelids will start.