1. You left me longing that still resides,
A yearning that stripped my patience bare, nay captured my soul.

2. Alas, my heart will never be consoled of you,
For my passion for you will last forevermore.

3. Is not sadness enough that I’m wasted while
I’ve seen the sweetness of life flow cool?

4. She sang, and had a dead man heard her song,
He'd come to life again as if never gone.

5. Gently, o my heart, you have made
Sorrow dwell in meadow and mountain.

6. Never have you spoken but I grew apart,
As though I’d not begun nor would start over.

7. Never have you reached out to return
Except I bid my hand melt away.