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.
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