So sweet was She

From the silence of my room

I heard her playing, all alone

The dancing dust between her toes

The gift of childhood was her own

Before my window, she did laugh

I watched her play on the sun-dried path

So sweet was she, she seemed to me

Like gentle rain on a summer's day

So sweet and free, will always be

As gentle rain in my memory

A little while later, I moved away

Forgot, remembered, returned one day

To see the daughter of my dreams

Had put away her childish things

She sat, solicitous, under the tree

The dust had settled around her feet

Oh, unkind fate, ungracious time

What devil will destroy my dream?

For, at the dusty hour of noon

Fat and listless, so old so soon

The curse of time will mark us all

But not my memory of that fair girl

So sweet was she, she seemed to me

Like gentle rain on a summer's day

So sweet and free, will always be

As gentle rain in my memory