Take all the light until i'm out and deep
That I may linger where you rest in me,
And tho' you hide there well and bide in sleep
Again your sprightly sight would I then be.
You first arrived as swift as you had left
And I took you to stay; as dawn to light,
Yet from my skin and then my skin's bereft;
To mourn a love that held my better sight.
Reunion of a kind, as that proposed:
Would have deceived the years that had you lost?
Denying time when time had you reposed,
And all I made dissolved and none accost.
Yes depths may take me to your golden cast!
Yet I as now tho' old, has still to last.
