When you're away dear,    how weary the lonesome hours,    sunshine seems gray dear,    the fragrance has left the flowers . . .       Ever I hear you in seeming    whispering soft love words to me    Ah if I knew it were but dreaming    n'er to be . . .       Then, when you're near me    there's n'yot that I strive to do    save to endear me    more fondly my love to you . . .       Never again let us part dear,    I'd die without you my own,    hold me again to your heart,    I love you alone . . .       ( Never again let us part dear,    I'd die without you my own . . . )       . . . hold me again to your heart,    I love you alone . . .       Love you my own . . .    love you alone!       Music by Victor Herbert    with lyrics by Henry Blossom , 1914