We Have Been Friends Together

WE have been friends together,  
 In sunshine and in shade;  
Since first beneath the chestnut-trees  
 In infancy we played.  
But coldness dwells within thy heart,
 A cloud is on thy brow;  
We have been friends together—  
 Shall a light word part us now?  
 
We have been gay together;  
 We have laugh’d at little jests;
For the fount of hope was gushing  
 Warm and joyous in our breasts.  
But laughter now hath fled thy lip,  
 And sullen glooms thy brow;  
We have been gay together—
 Shall a light word part us now?  
 
We have been sad together,  
 We have wept, with bitter tears,  
O’er the grass-grown graves, where slumber’d  
 The hopes of early years.
The voices which are silent there  
 Would bid thee clear thy brow;  
We have been sad together—  
 Oh! what shall part us now?