Far Off I Hear a Lover's Flute

Far off I hear a lover's flute
  A-crying thro' the gloom;
Far off the golden waters flow
  A-down their sandy flume.
I see the shrunken Mother Moon
  Go forth to meet the Day,
While dim and white the dead ones walk
  Upon the Spirit Way.

Why should I wake and walk tonight
  When all the lodge is still?
Why should I watch the Ghostly Road,
  So high and white and chill?
Why should I hate the crying flute
  Which happy lovers play?
Ah! far and white my loved one walks
  Along the Spirit Way!

by Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871-1944)

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by Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946) , "Far Off I Hear a Lover's Flute", op. 45 no. 3, published 1909, from Four American Indian Songs, no. 3.

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