Long afloat on shipless oceans

I did all my best to smile

'Til your singing eyes and fingers

Drew me loving to your isle



And you sang, 'Sail to me, sail to me, let me enfold you.

Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you.'



Did I dream, you dreamt about me?

Were you hare when I was fox?

Now my foolish boat is leaning

Broken lovelorn on your rocks



For you sing, 'Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:

O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow.'



Well, I'm as puzzled as the newborn child

I'm as riddled as the tide:

Should I stand amid the breakers?

Or should I lie with death my bride?



Hear me sing, 'Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you:

Here I am, here I am waiting to hold you