Read "When I Think of Thee, Brother" by Thomas Gordon Hake online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
I: When I think of thee, brother, / Is my heart not all thine? / Yet the face of another / Seems bending o'er mine. / I call thee by name, yet a name not thy own / Has whispered already its dear undertone.
II: When I think thine eyes greet me, / Their sweet flash of blue / Brings another's to meet me / Of somberer hue; / And ever before me they seem to remain, / Though my heart but repines to behold thee again.
III: When I list, and would hear thee / Once more in our home, / And thy voice appears near me, / Another's has come. / I dream of thee only, for thee only sigh, / Yet thy image forsakes me; another's is nigh.
IV: When thy fond smiles come o'er me, / As in moments now flown, / There riseth before me / A look not thy own: / 'Tis thee I recall to my mind, O my brother! / Yet ever with thine comes the gaze of another.