Louisa Stuart Costello - Song.—The transient time lyrics

The transient time, for ever past, How shall I dare review!— The fatal day we parted last, And wept out last adieu! Alas! that day has swell'd to years— That sorrow to a sea of tears! I would the mournful thoughts would fly, Regretted, loved in vain, Among the dreams of memory That never come again!— Would their remembrance might decay, Swept like the autumn leaves away!