1. The time has come for affection to arrange
And quench the thirst of yearning love's soothe

2. And bring the days gone by draw near
With Egypt as it was, or greater yet

3. And take away the years of aloofness and disdain
Aloof and cold, and make them enough

4. So were it not for the years of disdain lengthening
My heart would not have pined, nor my eyes wept

5. And strange it is, that its devil
Has rebelled, while the flames have yet to subside