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shall i thus ever long? - imogen holst lyrics

shall i thus ever long, and be no whit the neare?
and shall i still complain to thee, the which me will not hear?
alas! say nay! say nay! and be no more so dumb
but open thou thy manly mouth and say that thou wilt come:
whereby my heart may think, although i see not thee
that thou wilt come — thy word so sware — if thou a live man be
the roaring hugy waves they threaten my poor ghost
and toss thee up and down the seas in danger to be lost
shall they not make me fear that they have swallowed thee?
— but as thou art most sure alive, so wilt thou come to me
whereby i shall go see thy ship ride on the strand
and think and say lo where he comes and sure here will he land:
and then i shall lift up to thee my little hand
and thou shalt think thine heart in ease, in health to see me stand
and if thou come indeed (as christ thee send to do!)
those arms which miss thee now shall then embrace thee too:
each vein to every joint the lively blood shall spread
which now for want of thy glad sight doth show full pale and dead
but if thou slip thy troth, and do not come at all
as minutes in the clock do strike so call for death i shall:
to please both thy false heart and rid myself from woe
that rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so!

- imogen holst lyrics

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