WE have been friends together, 
 In sunshine and in shade; 
Since first beneath the chestnut-trees 
 In infancy we played. 
But coldness dwells within thy heart, 
 A cloud is on thy brow; 
We have been friends together? 
 Shall a light word part us now? 
 
We have been gay together; 
 We have laugh?d at little jests; 
For the fount of hope was gushing 
 Warm and joyous in our breasts. 
But laughter now hath fled thy lip, 
 And sullen glooms thy brow; 
We have been gay together? 
 Shall a light word part us now? 
 
We have been sad together, 
 We have wept, with bitter tears, 
O?er the grass-grown graves, where slumber?d 
 The hopes of early years.
The voices which are silent there 
 Would bid thee clear thy brow; 
We have been sad together? 
 Oh! what shall part us now?