2.

I bade you go; ah, wherefore are you gone?

How could you leave me dark and desolate,

O Sun of Love, that for brief summer shone?

Mine eyes are ever on the western gate,

Half-wishing, half-foredreading your return.

Return, O Love, return!

I cannot live without you; through the dark

I stretch blind hands to you across the world;

All day on unknown battle-fields I mark