Flame out with sorrow and yearning love.

AVERLAINE: And I, who wandered with grey despair,

Looking up, saw heaven in blossom above.

ARKELD: Ah God, ah God, that it never had been!

AVERLAINE: The Shadow, the Shadow that falls between!

ARKELD: May we not go as we came, alone,

Unto the ends of the earth anew?

AVERLAINE: May we draw afresh from the rose new-blown

The golden sunlight, the crystal dew?

ARKELD: Yea, love between us has bloomed as a rose