"Love, let thy lips depart no more

From those same eyes they once did kiss,

The very bosom wounded sore

When sorrow clave the heart of bliss!"

O was it day, or was it night,

As there they told their love again?

The high-tide of the sun's delight,

Or whirl of wind and drift of rain?

"Speak sweet, my love, of how it fell,

And how thou cam'st across the sea,