I SINCE you have waned from us, Fairest of women! I am a darkened cage Song cannot hymn in. My songs have followed you, Like birds the summer; Ah! bring them back to me, Swiftly, dear comer! @3Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!@1 II Where wings to rustle use, But this poor tarrier -- Searching my spirit's eaves -- Find I for carrier. Ah! bring them back to me, Swiftly, sweet comer -- Swift, swift, and bring with you Song's Indian summer! @3Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!@1 III Whereso your angel is, My angel goeth; I am left guardianless, Paradise knoweth! I have no Heaven left To weep my wrongs to; Heaven, when you went from us, Went with my songs too. @3Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!@1 IV I have no angels left Now, Sweet, to pray to: Where you have made your shrine They are away to. They have struck Heaven's tent, And gone to cover you: Whereso you keep your state Heaven is pitched over you! @3Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!@1 V She that is Heaven's Queen Her title borrows, For that she, pitiful, Beareth our sorrows. So thou, @3Regina mi, Spes infirmorum;@1 With all our grieving crowned @3Mater dolorum! Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!@1 VI Yet, envious coveter Of others' grieving! This lonely longing yet 'Scapeth your reaving. Cruel, to take from a Sinner his Heaven! Think you with contrite smiles To be forgiven? @3Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!@1 VII Penitent! give me back Angels, and Heaven; Render your stolen self, And be forgiven! How frontier Heaven from you? For my soul prays, Sweet, Still to your face in Heaven, Heaven in your face, Sweet! @3Seraphim, Her to hymn, Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals!@1 |