Why Seems the World so Fair

Why seems the world so fair,
Why do I sing?
Why? in the meadow there
When it was Spring,
There when all fair things were
Clearer to see,
All the young dreams I'd lost
Came back to me.

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I may not enter now,
But there's a Spring
Somewhere beyond the sun.
So I can sing,
So I can wait and sing,
While I prepare
My soul to welcome thine,
When we meet there.