1. I'm a part of you though I'm not you
Dreams and stars have closed my eyelids

2. I've sorrow like yours
Though mine exceeds yours in some ways

3. These are not your seasons that have passed
Their worries haven't passed, nor have they passed me

4. I have a winter of your misery
Drowned in torrential rain

5. The wind in it moans
And grieves beneath the darkness

6. So when the world unravels
With all its thorns and thistles

7. And I feel the hand of misery
Ringing bells of sorrow in me

8. I have a radiant spring
That struts with a fluttering tail

9. That doesn't end except to return
With love and longing

10. I'm your hidden secret
I don't know if I should grieve or sing

11. O land, here I am, filled
With all your harvest of sorrows

12. You give birth then you bury
Your children, from grave to grave

13. While I, hope's father
Have buried so many hopes

14. I'm a part of you, though
Beauty is my cup and fortune

15. I rise to it, I'm in debt to none
If in debt to aught but beauty

16. I'm a part of you, but don't love you
For dust is gentle and tender

17. My thoughts are the white clouds
Left in the bending sky

18. And beside me, a morning star
Among the galaxy's twinkling stars

19. It's as if I'm one of them
Or as if they were made of me