Respectfully dedicated
To Miss Emma P. Markley.
HOME JOYS. [No. 15]
for the
Piano Forte or Parlor Organ
"No One to Weep When I'm Gone" (3 Nov. 1870)
Song and Chorus.
Words and Music by
Alice Hawthorne.
[pseud. for Septimus Winner, 1827-1902]

[Source: 03385@LoC (Nov. 3, 1870)]

1.
No one to weep when I am gone,
No one to care for such as me;
No one to weep and no one to mourn,
No one to sigh my fate to see.
No one to place beside my grave,
Some little flower -- as pledge of love;
Only the soft, green grass to wave,
Under the eye of Him above.

CHORUS
No one to weep when I am gone
No one to grieve for few have smiled
No one to weep and no one to mourn
No one to care for a poor lone child.

2.
Over my grave the birds may sing,
Ever, alas! the whole day long,
Never again to waken me;
Never to hear their sweet, low song.
Under the sod my rest will be,
Lonely and still -- apart from all;
Gone to the charge of Him who sees
Even the tiny sparrow's fall.

(CHORUS)