"My Hopes Have Departed Forever"

My hopes have departed Forever

My hopes have departed forever
 My vision of true love is o'er
My heart shall awaken – ah! never
 There's joy for my bosom no more
The roses that crowned me are blighted
 The garland I cherished is dead
The faith once confidingly plighted
 Is broke and my loved one has fled

They saw that my life was decaying
 They knew that my stay would be brief
They saw that
And still, though my spirit was straying
 I told not a word of my grief
 No
Not a whisper revealed my deceiver
  No ear heard me sigh or complain
  For my heart still adored its bereaver
  And I hoped I should meet him again
  And I longed but to meet him again
He came but another had rifled
 His heart of the love once my own
 anguish
I grieved but my sorrow was stifled
 And calmly I bore it unknown
 And shrank from his cold formal tone 
The sun is now sinking in billows MBut Morning will shine through the
willows
 That roll in the far distant west  And find me forever at rest