But your eyes shone down on me and you seemed so far, so far.
“And then I knew that you loved me, loved me with all your heart,
But we could not stand at the altar, we were so far apart;
If a star would wed a flower, the star must drop from the sky,
Or the flower, in trying to reach it, would droop on its stalk and die.
“And you said that you loved me dearly, and swore by the heaven above,
That the Lord and all His angels would sanction and bless our love,
And I was weak, not wicked, my love was pure and true,
And sin itself seemed a virtue, when only shared by you.
“We have been happy together, though, under a cloud of sin;