Again! Come, give, yield all your strength to me! From far a low word breathes on the breaking brain
The eyes that mock me sign the way Whereto I pass at eve of day. Grey way whose violet signals are
Be not sad because all men Prefer a lying clamour before you: Sweetheart, be at peace again,
Lightly come or lightly go: Though thy heart presage thee woe, Vales and many a wasted sun,
Love came to us in time gone by When one at twilight shyly played And one in fear was standing nigh,
Now, O now, in this brown land Where Love did so sweet music make We two shall wander, hand in hand,
O, it was out by Donnycarney When the bat flew from tree to tree My love and I did walk together;
Wind whines and whines the shingle, The crazy pierstakes groan; A senile sea numbers each single
Rain has fallen all the day. O come among the laden trees: The leaves lie thick upon the way
Though I thy Mithridates were, Framed to defy the poison-dart, Yet must thou fold me unaware