Hear now, my sorry so long Spoken gallingly ironically; Inadequate lyrics to a cruel, cruel song… Alas, no elegy can there be That grasps the bitter harmony! Oh how I long in vain- oh how I wish My listless letters to embrace; To comfort softly, and to kiss Tear streaked cheek upon pretty face, And capture salty sample of departing grace… So I curse rhetoric with hopeless howl! And beg the deaf devil my soul to pay Since neither careful consonant nor vexing vowel Plant seed in soul I yearn to lay Before pending dawn yields lacking, lonely day... Yet! My heart, still rejoice the feeling so strong It champions word and rhyme and hymn and song! For lovely sail, with such fine sentiment, Will with destiny strain to return to whom the love was sent.
