O human love! Thou Spirit
Of all our hopes on Earth
Into our souls you fall like rain
Blessed by the bright afar
O human life! Our summer sun
Whose waning is the dreariest
Love and life, like sunflowers, fall
With wilted youth and faded light
Farewell! The Faraway draws near
With music strange and slow
And my own voice will fade away
And all I sought to keep is lost
And rays of Truth you cannot see Are flashing through Eternity