Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow/To Her
TO HER
YOUR presence like a benison to me Wakes my sick soul to dreamful ecstasy,I fancy that some old Arabian nightSaw you my houri and my heart's delight.
And wandering forth beneath the passionate moon, Your love-strung zither and my soul in tune,We knew the joy, the haunting of the pain That like a flame thrills through me now again.
To-night we sit where sweet the spice winds blow, A wind the northland lacks and ne'er shall know,With clasped hands and spirits all aglow As in Arabia in the long ago.