You have to know about the following poem/song-lyric before you may appreciate another lyric recorded by Bert Williams. I got this wrong in my post two days ago, for which I apologize: the English came first, then was translated into Italian for the song, and it was sung in both languages -- ad infinitum, ad nauseum even -- in Bert Williams' time.

author: George John Whyte-Melville

Fallinig leaf and fading tree,
Lines of white in a sullen sea,
Shadows rising on you and me.
The swallows are making them ready to fly,
Wheeliing out on a windy sky.
Goodbye Summer! Goodbye! Goodbye!

Hush! a voice from the far away!
"Listen and learn," it seems to say,
"All the tomorrows shall be as today."
The cord is frayed, the cruse is dry,
The link must break, and the lamp must die --
Goodbye Hope! Goodbye! Goodbye!

What are we waiting for? Oh my heart!
Kiss me straight on the brows, and part.
Again! again! -- my heart! my heart!
What are we waiting for, you and I?
A pleading look, a stifled cry.
Goodbye forever! Goodbye forever!
Goodbye! Goodbye! Goodbye!

--infamously set to music by Francesco Paolo Tosti