A BEQUEST TO MY LOVE  

                   By: Elaine Randolph nee. Moreino
                              

                   Where are you my love today
                      Who stays out of my reach?
                  I dream about the moonlit nights
                      We spent down by the beach.   

                 Those happy years we shared together,
                       Wrapped in melody;
                  As time goes by and thoughts of you,
                       Make life a rhapsody.   

                 And through the troubles in this world,
                       The grief, the pain and woe;
                 The rapture of my burning love,
                       Is a shield of Heaven’s glow.   

                 The many miles that part us, Love
                      To me are but a dream;
                  And as the years go slowly by,
                       My love flows like a stream.

                  When  you said, “Auf wiedersehen,
                       This is not goodbye”;
                  You sadly turned and walked away,
                       I don’t know where or why.

                   I miss you so my only love,
                       Why did you go away?
                  I’ve waited for so many years,
                       I’ll wait for you today.   

                  Will I ever see your face
                       And hear your voice again?
                  I hope with all my heart and soul,
                       My prayer is not in vain.   

                  And when “O, Love!” I call at last,
                      “I go now to my rest,”
                   Spare me just one moment more,
                        And hold me to your breast.

                   I hear your heart beat one with mine,
                        I dearly bless the dawn;
                  The birth of my eternal love,
                       My life, My Dearest One.