1.

In the night and in the rain,

And in the sunny summer days

Love came beautifully.

Came by curious ways.

Time was not time then

Hearts were as a flame.

There was neither time nor place

When love came, when love came.

2.

You held my heart to lightly

In eager careless hands

When I go to give it whole to you

Had broken iron bands.

Life could not have taught you

How fragile things may break,

Nor when it fell small pity

For even my poor sake.

3.

Autumn went crying in the hills that year

Under a leaden sky.

Yet neither the hill nor tree nor windy rain

Cried lonelier than I.

October went reluctantly along.

Her leaf brown hillside track;

You never knew or cared when I had gone

How long that I looked back.

4.

Time dulls the sharpest pain, I think,

And it is easy to forget.

They tell me this. It must be true.

It must be true...and yet.....

But something cold is in me.

I might pass you anywhere,

And see your face and eyes light up;

I would hardly care.

It was not the buying songs from him.

I knew. It needed more than him

To deceive who have bought

And lost so long.

I did not buy a song from him.

He had filled his bag with lost things

That a girl sings.

I stood my small songs in a little row.

And I think I got back from him

Something I had lost long ago.