Lost love

M. Brahe

A hundred times I kissed the lips

Of my young love and true;

Now over her mouth the slow tide slips,

And where went down a hundred ships,

Went down my kisses too.

A hundred times I called to her

With a cry full long and sore,

But never more shall her spirit stir,

And never up from the wild water

Shall come my young love more.