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LOVE'S SINGER. V. A Love Song
Are you in the moonlight? No more mine eyes are holden:
I see the light that lightens you; the air you breathe I know.
The spring is green beneath you and above you all is golden,
And while the moon is clear for you I cannot darkling go.
I see the light that lightens you; the air you breathe I know.
The spring is green beneath you and above you all is golden,
And while the moon is clear for you I cannot darkling go.
Are you in the darkness where voices cry about you?
Your darkness makes my pathway blind, your pain is sharp in me.
I can hear the tones that trouble you and lure you and flout you;
My grief is round about your grief as round a ship the sea.
Your darkness makes my pathway blind, your pain is sharp in me.
I can hear the tones that trouble you and lure you and flout you;
My grief is round about your grief as round a ship the sea.
I 'm yours and I love you in dreams and out of dreaming;
I am yours when you forget me and yours when you recall.
When you are at your weariest, the ravens round you screaming,
Am I not close beside you, Dear? I see and hear it all.
I am yours when you forget me and yours when you recall.
When you are at your weariest, the ravens round you screaming,
Am I not close beside you, Dear? I see and hear it all.
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Am I yours as you're mine? For you cannot put away
My faithful soul from your soul, if my body lets it go.
My joy is yours, your sorrow mine; and your gloom is on my day,
And my light in your night shall be a star for you to know.
My faithful soul from your soul, if my body lets it go.
My joy is yours, your sorrow mine; and your gloom is on my day,
And my light in your night shall be a star for you to know.
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