1. The embers of a passionate love I used to tend and pray
It burned within my very soul from night through to the day

2. From longstanding sorrows long concealed its veil stripped bare
With wise forbearance and patient wisdom hope held sway

3. So wonder not that I have ended what between us lay
By choice, though no vindictive soul bid our love fray

4. Turn from yourself what you now know cannot hold sway
Though once to me its comfort was my mainstay

5. For from you came what I could not bear, though mighty I
With strength to endure life's heaviest weights unflinching by