1.
Why fall these tears, these useless tears?
Why throbs this longing breast?
Waked by the phantoms of lost years.
From peace to wild unrest?
Can I from out the withered past
Brought but regret recall?
Must hope and love, and life at last
In one sad crevice fall?

REFRAIN
Why fall these tears, these useless tears,
These tears, these useless tears.


2.
The shadows of the coming night
Rise higher on the walls;
And seem to drown the struggling light,
While mystic voices call.
The lost ones of the bygone hours,
And bid them gently show
That, ’mid sharp thorns, bloom’d sweeter flow’rs
In days of long ago.

REFRAIN
Why fall these tears, these useless tears,
These tears, these useless tears.


3.
Then hope, oh heart, for soon the night
Will come and with it rest;
And then the morn, with glowing light,
That makes the spirit blest.
In Paradise, there thou’ll abide.
No grief, no care shall come;
And loving hands and heart shall guide
The weary wand’rer home.

REFRAIN
Why fall these tears, these useless tears,
These tears, these useless tears.

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