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 Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
 Who never spent the darksome hours
  Weeping, and watching for read more 
 Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
 Who never spent the darksome hours
  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--
   He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
    [Ger., Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass,
     Wer nicht die kummervollen Nachte
      Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,
       Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte.] 
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.
One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.
 For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
 The worste kynde of infortune is this,
  A man to hav bent read more 
 For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
 The worste kynde of infortune is this,
  A man to hav bent in prosperite,
   And it remembren whan it passed is. 
 Ah, don't be sorrowful darling,
 And don't be sorrowful, pray:
  Taking the year together, my dear,
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 Ah, don't be sorrowful darling,
 And don't be sorrowful, pray:
  Taking the year together, my dear,
   There isn't more night than day. 
 The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
 Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.  
 The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
 Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. 
 O, sorrow!
 Why dost borrow
  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?  
 O, sorrow!
 Why dost borrow
  Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? 
 When sparrows build and the leaves break forth
 My old sorrow wakes and cries.  
 When sparrows build and the leaves break forth
 My old sorrow wakes and cries.