| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXXI. Tender Memory
In June | | By Edward William Thomson (1849–1924) |
| | From ‘The Canadian Rossignol’
NO, Rossignol, sing not that strain, | |
| Triumphant ’spite of all the pain,— | |
| She cannot hear you, Rossignol, | |
| She does not pause and flush, your thrall. | |
| She does not raise that slender hand | 5 |
| And, poised, lips parted, understand | |
| What you are telling of the years, | |
| Her brown eyes soft with happy tears, | |
| She does not hear a note of all. | |
| Ah, Rossignol, ah, Rossignol! | 10 |
| But skies are blue, and flowers bloom, | |
| And roses breathe the old perfume, | |
| And here the murmuring of the trees | |
| In all of lovelier mysteries— | |
| And may be now she hears the song | 15 |
| Pouring the summer hills along, | |
| Listens with joy that still to me | |
| Remain the summer time and thee. | | | | |
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