My Boy + 

I hear you singing happily, + 

My boy of tarnished mien, + 

Lifting your limpid, trustful gaze + 

In innocence serene. + 

A thousand javelins of pain + 

Assault my heaving breast + 

When I behold the storm of years + 

That beat without your nest. + 

O sing, my lark, your matin song + 

Of joyous rhapsody, + 

Distil the sweetness of the hours + 

In gladsome ecstasy. + 

For time awaits your buoyant flight + 

Across the bar of years, + 

Sing, sing your song, my bonny lark, + 

Before it melts in tears! + 