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"The sun is up, the birds do sing,
My love why do you leave?"
"Anchor is up, my mates do sing,
My love, 'tis time to leave.
For time ebbs like the tide by which the ship
At her mooring strains and moans for spray."
"But if you go, what shall I do,
My love when you are gone?"
"When I have left, sing for me true,
My love when I am gone.
And yet tide floods and yet the stream runs free
And so one day I shall return to you"
"My love, why do we play in rhyme,
So soon before you go?"
"My love, there is so little time
Verse lights our love aglow
When home I come from sea and sun and mist
I shall seek soft shelter in your arms"
"So kiss me then, and hold me fast,
Dear, let our lips not part"
"I'll kiss you, love, and hold you fast,
But dear, our lips must part.
Dearest, we should surely starve to death,
If our lips caress'd and touch'd forev'r!"
"And might you choose another boat?
Love, leave some other hour!"
"Suppose I chose a diff'rent boat,
And raised a diff'rent bower?
T'would but delay the hour I depart
And dawn is not more difficult than noon.
When safely in your arms I rest
Again I shall never roam
And I will burn my old sea chest
To stay with thee at home."
"Then you and I will sit with stately fire
And happy for a time indeed we'll be.
But petrel will call and sea will rear,
Your heart again will pull.
For southern stars you'll wish to steer.
And I'll knit thee cap of wool.
For I accept that you will roam from here
We both accept that it will break our hearts.
And when shrouds freeze and with ice cake
My cap shall keep you warm"
"And if it from me the sea doth take
I shall not feel the storm.
Suffice it would to know that I was loved
Even though my love was from me gone."
"So kiss me once, and leave me dear,
To your boat you go.
For me shed a single tear,
No more than one do show.
Lover, if you did not leave me here
My only love you would not be - now go!"
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Voyage's Dawn
