If we should ever meet again
When many tedious years are past;
When time shall have unbound the chain,
And this sad heart is free at last;-
Then shall we meet and look unmov'd,
As though we ne'er had met-had lov'd!
And I shall mark without a tear
How cold and calm thy alter'd brow;
I shall forget thou once wert dear,
Rememb'ring but thy broken vow!
Rememb'ring that in trusting youth
I lov'd thee with the purest truth;
That now the fleeting dream is o'er,
And thou canst raise the spell no more!