Cold is the sea, but colder yet

Is the brow that its waters lave,

And the tide is still in the breast that heaves

To the rock of the restless wave:

The bloom is gone from his glowing cheek

And the love from his pleasant eye,

And none there heed on his pallid lips

The smile that could never die.

Oh, I pine, beloved, to hear once more

Thy cheerful loving tone,