“My love, I see you through my tears.
No pity in your face I see.
I have sailed far across the years:
Stretch out, stretch out your arms to me.
“My love, I have an island seen,
So shadowed, God’s most piercing star
Shall never see where we have been,
Shall never whisper where we are.
“There we will wander, you and I,
Down guilty and delightful ways,