Summer Song
If I might go with my True Love,
To some far, dream-swept land,
I’d be content to sit all day
Upon the silver sand,
And watch the sea come creeping in,
The sighing, singing sea—
If I might go to some far land,
And take True Love with me!
If I could go with my True Love,
To some far, lonely place;
The world might well be lost, and I
Could look upon Love’s face.
And wealth would seem a little thing,
While happiness might be—
If I could go to some far land,
And take True Love with me.
Ah, Love would smile, and ruffle up,
The hair above my brow;
And we would laugh at all that seems
So very sober, now.
And monkey-folk, and scarlet birds,
Would peer from every tree,
And try to understand the words
My True Love said to me!
If I might go with my True Love,
To some far, dream-swept land;
I would not miss the world, for I
Could always touch Love’s hand,
And feel the magic of his lips—
Oh, by the singing sea,
And Eden-place would bloom a-new
For my True Love and me!