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 Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
 [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.]  
 Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
 [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.] 
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.
 A happier lot were mine,
 If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
  For I read more 
 A happier lot were mine,
 If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
  For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,--
   Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none,
    And no dear mother. 
 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. 
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
 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.] 
 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. 
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.