- There was a time within my life whence I was but alone;
- Whence all the love giv’n to me was ne’er in my heart sown.
- My heart was open but ever empty, for love ne’er knew me then,
- And might I try to op’n it more I’d never find a mend.
- For much a time I trav’ll’d through life with a heavy heart inside;
- A heart weighed down, not b’ excess love, but loneliness within abide.
- For years I tried to compensate with the things I had around me,
- My eyes, my ears, my nose, my tongue thought that they had found thee.
- The things they found were substitute, and tried to trick my heart:
- My eyes would view the seas of grain and give my love a start —
- They’d see the ocean up above, blue as m’ spirit inside,
- And then at night the sea was black and pocketed w’ specs of light;
- My ears would hear the beautiful song of spring birds in a tree,
- And the whisper of the brooks and wind would once again be thee;
- My nose would smell the sugar rose and the fragr’nce o’ fallen rain,
- And these two things w’ innocence were ye t’ me again;
- The taste of sweetness upon m’ tongue were joys that would exclaim,
- That you were here, though you were not, and for a time would keep me sane.
- And all these things would fill my heart, tho’ ne’er would stay that long,
- For they were not love, but took the place when I did not hear the song
- Of a voice from Heav’n that would fill my ears, my mind, my soul, my heart
- And change the love I felt back then for one that was my part
- Years went by and still no sign of the love I want’d for me —
- She had to be the perfect one for my eyes to even see.
- The beauty of her hair surpass the golden waves of grain,
- The darkness richer than the eve and darker than its reign;
- The voice of her must angelic be and fill my mind with peace,
- Be honey smooth and sunny soothe and soft as fragrant fleece;
- Her scent of flow’rs and fallen rain must fill my heart each day;
- And the taste of precious lips must too engulf me when they may.
- That was the love I wanted for; the love my heart would need;
- The love my eyes kept searching for; the love my ears would heed;
- The love my mind kept yearning for; the love my spirit missed;
- The love my soul was aching for; ’twas what made me amiss.
- Time did not bend and was not friend and kept her from my sight,
- But then I knew that once’d come soon and then I’d be full o’ light.
- The time soon came after years’d gone by, and my mind had ne’er thought
- Nor dreamed the sight of beauty such would have been my lot.
- But the richness of her hair was more than midnight in the woods,
- And the eyes of her were deep with green yet mingled w’ brown o’ wood.
- The voice I heard was sweet like heav’n, and her song was more than birds
- And the beauty of her entire soul was brighter than the earth.
- It was not long b’fore I fell in love and my heart was full once more
- With a joy that stretched throughout my soul and warmed my spirit’s core.
- She soothes my soul when it is troubled or filled with worldly cares,
- And she calms my mind of busy days and all my stress she bears.
- And now I know that it’s her love that will keep me warm forever,
- And the time I’ve wait’d for her love will escape my mind in never.
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