Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.


An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.

Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.

Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.

Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.