Is This the Price of Love?

Never again the sight of her?

Never her winsome smile

Shall light the path of my journeying

O'er many a weary mile?

Never again shall her soft voice come

To cheer me all the while?

O Thou, who hearest from above,

Tell me, is this the price of love?

Never again the touch of her lips?

Never her dark, brown eyes

Shall shine on me with the dancing joy

Of stars in the summe skies?

Never again shall my song be aught

Save minor chords of sighs?

O Thou, who hearest from above,

Tell me, is this the price of love?

Joseph Seamon Cotter