While My Lady Sleeps

The moon will rise, but all in vain

For there's no use in its shining

While my lady sleeps

The breeze will sing a sad refrain

Because her heart is pining

While my lady sleeps

Starlight and moonlight, an amorous melody wasted

What can they mean when I'm yearning

For kisses never tasted?

The night may hold a million dreams

But when her eyes discover just a lonely lover

She will hurry on with a sigh to the dawn

While the willow tree weeps and my lady sleeps

Starlight and moonlight, an amorous melody wasted

What can they mean when I'm yearning

For kisses never tasted?

The night may hold a million dreams

But when her eyes discover just a lonely lover

She will hurry on with a sigh to the dawn

While the willow tree weeps and my lady sleeps