Let trifles prevail not
Against those ye love.
Nor change with tomorrow
Should fortune take wing
But the deeper the sorrow
The closer still cling.
Oh! be kind to each other
The nights coming on
When friend & when brother
Perchance may be gone.
Let us love one another -
Charles Swain England.
Let us love one another
Not long may we stay:
In this bleak world of mourning
Some droop while 'tis day.
Others fade in their moon,
And few linger till eve.
Oh! there breaks not a heart
But leaves some one to grieve:
And the fondest, the purest,
The truest that met,
Have still found the need
To forgive and forget!
Then all! though the hopes
That we nourished decay
Let us love one another
As long as we stay