Music moaning ever in my heart.

Oh my Love is on the billows of the sea,

Sending messages along the waves to me;

And the ever-singing shells along the lea

With my longing heart a constant chorus keep.

But the breaking of the message—the message from the deep,

Makes the silence of my sorrow inly weep;

While the moaning shells intoning, intoning griefs impart

Ever sobbing to the silence of my heart;—

Sobbing to the silence,