Some Day I'll Visit Longingly (Verse IV)

Someday I'll visit longingly All the places where, unseen, My lover and I have been Playing with waves by the sea. The two of us were alone Except for the company Of twain birds that we could see Had to the dark cavern flown. On the pair as light as air Her eyes rivetted would stay, While she the red iris spray, The gardener gave her, would tear. The sweet honeysuckle rose Her hands gathered from the dell, And lovely touch-me-nots, as well, Where the starlike jasmine grows. I, the gallant beau, begun To open her parasol; And she said, 'Don't think me droll If I'd rather see the sun!'' 'I've never seen sphires as tall As the noble oaks appear: Surely, the Christ must be here Because here is his cathedral.'' 'For my daughter's first communion, I know now the place that's best: All in white she will be dressed With a hat curved like a pinion.' When on the path we'd set out The heat was too much to bear, My lover and I kissed there Whenever a trill let out. As one who can no longer feel The quiet, frozen lake I'll tour: There I'll lay down the stilled oar, And there shall bury the sad keel!