Jew

Sing, sing, sing, O ocean choirs, o gladsome seas Break forth your cherub anthems in green trees O birds, and beasts, and croaking, creeking things The winter of the world is gone, a new day springs Joy eternal, wells of purest love for ancient thirst Sing with my heart that found again the love long first. O how I search across a desert world again to find The jasmines emitting milk of sweetness to my mind In what lonely dark I walked, amidst all terrors wild To find my love and with my flower be reconciled I had no sleep in the wasted years, no food was sweet Again, my heart wept and from eyes fell quiet sleet. Joy evermore wells in me now, my love is found, she Wrote my name, a single word, she opened memory She bid me come again to the sands where we kept Our first date and no more, Twickenham where we slept Forever now closed door, but in my dreams a bright Landscape, bids us forth into its soft and guiding light O jew, my jew, my jewel and my long last bride at last With throbbing heart, how trembling still I hold you fast My happiness that neither wealth nor learning gave me I once left all hope on the pallid page of splinty history And for your love would leave still, and for you rejoice Again. My wings are ready now to fly, do not think twice.