"Ah! My Child!"

Ah my child
Ah my child
For thy poor mother
Didst thou then smother
All thy sweet dreams
All thy sweet dreams
 Of Bertha's love?
Ah my child
Ah my child
Thou hast, alas! cast away
for thy mother
E'en more than life – all the hopes
that have warmed thy young heart.
Ah my son child
Ah my son child
May gracious heaven
may gracious heaven
Receive my supplication
Angels attend thee
Spirits defend thee
 My child ever blessed ever
blessed ever blessed be thou
 Ever blessed in heaven
  Blessed in heaven
   my child
   my child Ever blessed 
be thou in 
heaven, ever 
blessed be thou 
in heaven 
my child 
Blessed be thou