Nightingale

I built my house beside the wood So I could hear you singing And it was sweet and it was good And love was all beginning Fare thee well my nightingale It was long ago I found you Now all your songs of beauty fail The forest closes around you The sun goes down behind a veil It is now that you would call me So rest in peace my nightingale Beneath your branch of holly Fare thee well my nightingale It was long ago I found you Now all your songs of beauty fail The forest closes around you Fare thee well my nightingale I lived but to be near you Tho' you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you