1. How can I thirst when once for me
In you was water sweet and free?

2. Or when His word was spoken plain
God grant you peace, and peace again.

3. Yet haters watch us enviously,
Since that first knot of destiny.

4. They plot their snares, as oft before;
I say, A man's acts lie in his power.

5. Between us love's word interposes,
Who rends may mend faith's shattered roses.