​We Have Lived and Loved Together

​We Have Lived and Loved Together
 
We have lived and loved together
     Through many changing years;
We have shared each other’s gladness
     And wept each other’s tears;
 
I have known ne’er a sorrow
     That was long unsoothed by thee;
For thy smiles can make a summer
     Where darkness else would be.
 
Like the leaves that fall around us
     In autumn’s fading hours,
When the cloud of sorrow looms
     And sadness on us showers;
 
And though many such we’ve known, love,
     Too prone, alas, to range,
We both can speak of one love
     Which time can never change.
 
We have lived and loved together
     Through many changing years;
We have shared each other’s gladness
     And wept each other’s tears.
 
And let us hope the future
     As the past has been will be:
I will share with thee my sorrows,
     And thou thy joys with me.
 
by Charles Jeffreys