My Heart In Beating Should Refrain

When the moon at midnight breaks My heart is sorrow aches Tis like the depths of dismal sea Where dismal runs the memory Memory like a shadow cast On epic portions of the past There my dreams awake again Dreams that never end Dreams of sorrow and of woe Dreams of midnight’s darkest tow There the shadows linger on As the echo’s of a song Song like shadow how it sings Sweet the misery that it brings And if a doleful hour should be cast To frame for me the very past My heart in beating should refrain Lest the moment is lived again!