Seven Songs
as unpretentions as the Wild Rose
[No. 1 of 7]
[pages 6-7]
To E. L. P.
"Parting" (1901)
Words by William Ordway Partridge
Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond, 1861-1946

Chicago: The Bond Shop, 5535 Drexel Ave.
Plate No. 7
[Source: 2564@UoSC]

The light of the morn is breaking
Across the distant sea,
But the beauty is lost in sadness,
Sweet love, when I think of thee.

Would it were dark and dreary,
A mist across the brine,
And I were standing near thee,
With thy dear hand in mine.