"A Threnody"

A Threnody

The golden days are waning, 

And far away the skies are gray, 

To-morrow it may be raining. 

(Sing, bird in the alder!) 

The night comes soon and dreary; 

Above the town the hills are brown, 

And the heart is lone and weary. 

(Sing, bird in the alder!) 

Ah, me, but the hours are lonely! 

I bow and weep . . . Awake, asleep, 

I want thee and thee only. 

(Sing, bird in the alder!)

"A Threnody" as it appears in Ella Higginson's The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).