If I know one thing,
It's not for nothing
For someone to speak
When one must say
Something.

So I'll say one thing,
Must I say something:
Till I knew you,
My love, I knew
Nothing.

If we were to conceive
What is as what's received
That is as is accept
What is as its effect
And if it be that love
Of all is far above,
Made so by just decree,
Then it must be:

To sail when tempests
Bite your bark at sea:
To love be true
And you true
Love will
Free

To rise from drinking
Life down to the lees:
To love be true
And you true
Love will
Free

To calm the stormy deep
And weary soul to sleep:
Part from what's past.
To make the darkness seem
A long departed dream:
Put first what lasts.

And to undo that debt
No soul can flee:
To love be true
And you true
Love will
Free

To love be true,
To love be true,
To love be true
And you true
Love will
Free

In stillness silence roars and love sets fire
Darkness dead alight upon light's pyre.

Though it seems I won't deny
All that live in love never die:
Love can't free a heart that sings
Unwillingly

Though it's true true love transforms
Each to its most perfect form:
Love can't free a heart that sings
Unwillingly

Love by time is made no fool —
Time in truth by love is ruled —
But what's true love can't conceal,
Thus in time does truth reveal:
Love can't free a heart that sings
Unwillingly

Though maybe love from the start
Put this song here in my heart:
Love can't free a heart that sings
Unwillingly

Let darkness be the day!
Let darkness light my way!
For I in vain do pray
These prayers unanswered.
How weary, stale, and flat
Seem wisdom, truth, and fact,
No tether graced with slack
Nor song with dancer.

I’m not sure what from it will bring,
But I’ve already stolen a new pair of wings
From the back of a moth,
Hoping they can take me farther.
Beneath the glow of a lamp I drift,
From the swarm of the ****** I cannot sift,
And beneath the light
Only makes the night look darker

On the path and its wayside,
Scour I both far and wide,
Finding not but foolish pride
That dulls no hunger.
And in faith with each day done,
I await the rising sun,
But as soon as morning comes,
Comes night to plunder.

I’m not sure what from it will bring,
But I’ve already stolen a new pair of wings
From the back of a moth,
Hoping they can take me farther.
Beneath the glow of a lamp I drift,
From the swarm of the ****** I cannot sift,
And beneath the light
Only makes the night look darker

Angel at the helm,
Angel on the shore,
Angel in the sky,
Angel out the door.

Light divides no darkness,
Darkness draws no line:
Life ain't worth living
When love is left behind

Briars bear no flowers,
Flowers yield no wine:
Life ain't worth living
When love is left behind

Rhyme reveals no reason,
Reason saves no time:
Life ain't worth living
When love is left behind