Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)/Song ("She sat and sang alway")

by Christina Georgina Rossetti

For works with similar titles, see Song.

SONG.

She sat and sang alway
By the green margin of a stream,
Watching the fishes leap and play
Beneath the glad sunbeam.

I sat and wept alway
Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
Watching the blossoms of the May
Weep leaves into the stream.

I wept for memory:
She sang for hope that is so fair:
My tears were swallowed by the sea;
Her songs died on the air.