Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Parted Presence lyrics

Love, I speak to your heart, Your heart that is always here. Oh draw me deep to its sphere, Though you and I are apart; And yield, by the spirit's art, Each distant gift that is dear. O love, my love, you are here! Your eyes are afar to-day, Yet, love, look now in mine eyes. Two hearts sent forth may despise All dead things by the way. All between is decay, Dead hours and this hour that dies O love, look deep in mine eyes! Your hands to-day are not here, Yet lay them, love, in my hands. The hourgla** sheds its sands All day for the dead hours' bier; But now, as two hearts draw near, This hour like a flower expands. O love, your hands in my hands! Your voice is not on the air, Yet, love, I can hear your voice: It bids my heart to rejoice As knowing your heart is there,-- A music sweet to declare The truth of your steadfast choice. O love, how sweet is your voice! To-day your lips are afar, Yet draw my lips to them, love, Around, beneath, and above, Is frost to bind and to bar; But where I am and you are, Desire and the fire thereof. O kiss me, kiss me, my love! Your heart is never away, But ever with mine, for ever, For ever without endeavour, To-morrow, love, as to-day; Two blent hearts never astray, Two souls no power may sever. Together, O my love, for ever!