I lay, I tarried still, yet roamed far
Over and out, over every spring
Saw the shades of grave winds
That scaled the walls of lands most afar
Upon the earth vines grows long
Grope the belly of the wide dirt earth
Like a leach it feast, a feast for long
Squeeze the life right out of earth
Witness the ebb and the fall of tide
Saw much to make one cry
But what adjust has it brought out wide
To the breath of this me, the wry
Have fallen, been carried by arms kind
In the end to be fallen again, but why
Lost, been found, the love of many kind
Still again to be lost anew, but why
The last a maiden of fair maddened smile
Gone to dust all reason crumbling down
A knife to heart, bliss a while
Left to be washed over and river down
Blink thence close with whispered words
Pledge given under swollen moon
Ties made upon be gone off the cord
To be lost as the moon under made, soon
Moments shared in embrace of both
Peace of mind in squabbles that's long
Time lost past is such such long
To end with a relation of no worth
But still I lay to think of the time gone
Of the time that was but before
Waiting the returning feet
Wishing, that it was she at the door
Whenever despair tarried in
An eye turned away not to see
Even then reborn came they in
Though iron bound was my will
I stalked shadows that the fire wrought
To myself I tried to convince her return
Lengthened in such the time I fought
But a lesson about truth I failed to learn.