Elwing

Human Female

Not affiliated with an Alliance

 

 

Had I the Heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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Ay, the pain it costs me

To love you as I love you!

For love of you, the air, it hurts,

And my heart,

And my hat, they hurt me.

Who would buy it from me,

This ribbon I am holding,

And this sadness of cotton,

White, for making handkerchiefs with?

Ay, the pain it costs me

To love you as I love you!