My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
Upon the brink of the wild streamHe stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
High the river ran in gloom.
But let my love no longer trouble you,
I do not wish to cause you any pain.
I loved you; and the hopelessness I knew,
The jealousy, the shyness - though in vain -
Made up a love so tender and so true
As may God grant you to be loved again.
Time and again I'll savor harmony,
Melt into tears about some fantasy,
And on my sad decline, to ease affliction,
May love yet show her smile of valediction.
You said: When we meet again,
in the shadow of olive-trees,
we shall kiss, in a love without pain,
under cloudless infinities.
I don't deplore my passing dream of life --
Vanish in dark, the empty apparition!
But whenever eyes designing
Cast on thee a sudden spell,
In the darkness lips entwining
Love thee not, but kiss too well:
Shield thee, love, from evil preying,
From new heart-wounds---that it can,
From forgetting, from betraying
Guards thee this my talisman.
Why, dreams, you didn't prolong my happiness forever?
So, play and sing, friends of my years!
Not long ago, in a charming dream,
I saw myself -- a king with crown's treasure;
I was in love with you, it seemed,
And heart was beating with a pleasure.
I loved you even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.
But no, my friends, I do not wish to leave;
I'd rather live, to ponder and to grieve
In ecstasy my heart is beating,
Old joys for it anew revive;
Inspired and God-filled, it is greeting
The fire, and tears, and love alive.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories