Mermaid's Song

Can you hold on for a second?

Those tears in your eyes

For I would swim in that lake

For once, before I die

Don’t speak of love tonight

We’ll have time for it.

But if I drown in your lake

You think this wreath will fit

My hyacinth-smelling head?

And this song will sound apt

Beside my oyster-bed?

O another drop I see

Is it born just for me?

Pushing me to my second death

My oceanic ecstasy..

Yes love has left me cold

As I had been fondly told

“I will love you more than thee”

Say what can you claim more

Than what they did before?

Would you cry just for me

Love, that’s all I wish to see…