Picture Songs + 

A pale green sky is gleaming; + 

The steely stars are few; + 

The moorland pond is steaming + 

A mist of gray and blue. + 

Along the pathway lonely + 

My horse is walking slow; + 

Three living creatures only, + 

He, I, and a home-bound crow! + 

The moon is hardly shaping + 

Her circle in the fog; + 

A dumb stream is escaping + 

Its prison in the bog. + 

But in my heart are ringing + 

Tones of a lofty song; + 

A voice that I know, is singing, + 

And my heart all night must long. + 

Over a shining land⁠— + 

Once such a land I knew⁠— + 

Over its sea, by a soft wind fanned, + 

The sky is all white and blue. + 

The waves are kissing the shores, + 

Murmuring love and for ever; + 

A boat gleams green, and its timeful oars + 

Flash out of the level river. + 

Oh to be there with thee + 

And the sun, on wet sands, my love! + 

With the shining river, the sparkling sea, + 

And the radiant sky above! + 

The autumn winds are sighing + 

Over land and sea; + 

The autumn woods are dying + 

Over hill and lea; + 

And my heart is sighing, dying, + 

Maiden, for thee. + 

The autumn clouds are flying + 

Homeless over me; + 

The nestless birds are crying + 

In the naked tree; + 

And my heart is flying, crying, + 

Maiden, to thee. + 

The autumn sea is crawling + 

Up the chilly shore; + 

The thin-voiced firs are calling + 

Ghostily evermore: + 

Maiden, maiden! I am falling + 

Dead at thy door. + 

The waters are rising and flowing + 

Over the weedy stone⁠— + 

Over it, over it going: + 

It is never gone. + 

Waves upon waves of weeping + 

Went over the ancient pain; + 

Glad waves go over it leaping⁠— + 

Still it rises again! + 