WE HAVE LIVED AND LOVED TOGETHER


We have lived and loved together

Through many changing years;

We have shared each other's gladness

And wept each other's tears;

I have known ne'er a sorrow

That was long unsoothed by thee;

For thy smiles can make a summer

Where darkness else would be.



Like the leaves that fall around us

In autumn's fading hours,

Are the traitor's smiles that darken

When the cloud of sorrow lowers;

And though many such we've known, love,

Too prone alas, to range,

We both can speak of one love

Which time can never change.



We have lived and loved together

Through many changing years;

We have shared each other's gladness

And wept each other's tears.

And let us hope the future

As the past has been will be:

I will share with thee my sorrows,

And thou thy joys with me.

- Charles Jefferys