And harkened—when lo! a light in those eyes of sadness
Came sudden as day that breaks from the mountains of Moab.
PART IV
A SONG FOR DOROTHEA, ACROSS THE SEA
A song for you, my darling,
For your own, dear, only sake.
You bid me sing—so does the spring
Bid the birds awake,
And quick with molten music the dewy branches quake.
A song for you, my darling,
To follow you all the day;
And in sweet sleep the song shall keep
Singing along the way,
Through dreamland's silver meadows with golden lilies gay.
A song for you, my darling,
For those deep and darkling eyes,
That stedfast shine as the stars divine
Bright in the midnight skies,
When the winds blow the clouds from heaven, and we gaze with a glad surprise.
A song for you, my darling,
A song for that faithful heart
That as true abides as the throbbing tides,
Tho' half a world apart—
So far away is the girl I sing, with only a lover's art.
