The Frozen Lake

On a cold clear winter's night
Stars reflect in the lake
Tears for her sweetheart fill her eyes
Til she can no longer hold the saltwater drops
That drip ripples on the watery sky

It's was tomorrow she was the wed
But no bride will she be
The press gang took her fiancé away
To fight for king and country
On some far off foreign shore
With but a promise to return again one day

All day she sat by the shore of the lake
Where as a child she had played
Staring at the other side
Where her true live had lived
And she longs to return to those days

In the winter she could cross the frozen lake
To her love who lived on the other side
When the birds return and the ice begins to break
In the spring he shall make her his bride

She senses the bad news before it is spoke
In battle he drew his last breath
His body could not be found
But they all saw him go down
Sounds the news of his untimely death
Quite beside herself she walked down to the lake
Walked on til the current pulled her down
And the icy cold water swallowed her pain
And in the dark depths she was drowned

In the winter she would cross the frozen lake
To her love who lived on the other side
When the birds return and the ice begins to break
In the spring he shall make her his bride

Twelve months of winter and a soldier appears
Enquiring where his fiancé might be
He is told of her death in the water so cold
And in tears he is led off to see
He sat on the ice his heart heavy with grief
Salty tears melting the ice
Til underneath he can see the face of his love
And he thinks he hears her desperate cries
He broke through the ice to dive down to his love
Convinced that new life he could bring
And in her arms he died
And the ice began to melt
On that very first morning of spring

In the winter she could cross the frozen lake
To her love who lived on the other side
Now the birds return and the ice begins to break
For it is the spring he has made her his bride