National Lyrics, and Songs for Music/Oh! ye Voices

by Felicia Hemans

For other versions of this work, see O Ye Voices.

III.

O YE VOICES.

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O ye voices round my own hearth singing!
    As the winds of May to memory sweet,
Might I yet return, a worn heart bringing,
    Would those vernal tones the Wanderer greet,
⁠Once again?

Never, never! Spring hath smiled and parted
    Oft since then your fond farewell was said;
O'er the green turf of the gentle hearted,
    Summer's hand the rose-leaves may have shed,
⁠Oft again.

Or if still around my heart ye linger,
    Yet, sweet voices! there must change have come;
Years have quelled the free soul of the singer,
    Vernal tones shall greet the Wanderer home,
⁠Ne’er again!