I feel the beatings of your heart
    Strive towards me with steel-bound love,
And though as now we are apart
   I can’t love you more than enough.

You are to me my bonnie lass,
    And all my darkest woes expressed
Can ne’er outnumber all in past
    Our joint-found years now put to rest.

I see tears from your eyes like brine
    Fall down your cold and withered cheek.
No words roll off the tongue of mine
    If only hearts and souls could speak.

I would say what could find my heart
    In fairest prose or poetry.
What pity now that we’re in part,
    For you meant the whole world to me.