Hear! All stars; ever to be
Weave me a future; conspire with me
Hear! All women; with beauty hold
My heart in clasp; in future mould
Hear! All creatures; with love of sort
A path through life; to have wrought
Hear! All princesses destined to be
Fairytales; at the bottom of the sea
Take! This love; but nay you say:
Why’d you take my heart; so far away?
I search in vain; where is my heart?
From mind and body; forg'd far apart
Cast asunder; tossed like shell
Tiny and adrift; on Pacific swells
I dreamt my heart; beached on sand
Spinning and whinying; nigh desert land
I ran and ran; till breath no more
My empty lungs; what are they for?
I search the forests; and land to sea
My tired eyes; no heart I see
But look up; tis writ on high
God give me wings; so I can fly?
No feathers I grow; for He has fled
The furnace swarms; above my head
I wept and wept; my tears afloat
Up and up; do lift this boat
Survey all; from aloft I can
A sea born; of tearful glands
Sailing upon; an
Given to ponder; this eternal sea
Of drifting junks and corroded lives
I pity those;
With no tears to cry
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