And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

THE MESSAGE

“Oh, have you not a message, you who come over the sea?

Have you not a message or word at all for me?”

“I have sailed, sailed, sailed where the seas are green and blue,

I’ve silver, gold and merchandise—but never a word for you.”

“But did you see my love by any way you came?

For if you saw my love, he must have spoke my name.”

“Oh, yes, I saw your love—oh, yes, and he was gay