1. ۱1
2. ۲OUT of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me,
3. ۳Whispering, I love you, before long I die,
4. ۴I have travel’d a long way, merely to look on you, to touch you,
5. ۵For I could not die till I once look’d on you,
6. ۶For I fear’d I might afterward lose you.
7. ۷
8. ۸2
9. ۹(Now we have met, we have look’d, we are safe;
10. ۱۰Return in peace to the ocean, my love;
11. ۱۱I too am part of that ocean, my love—we are not so much separated;
12. ۱۲Behold the great rondure—the cohesion of all, how perfect!
13. ۱۳But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,
14. ۱۴As for an hour, carrying us diverse—yet cannot carry us diverse for ever;
15. ۱۵Be not impatient—a little space—Know you, I salute the air, the ocean and the
16. ۱۶ land,
17. ۱۷Every day, at sundown, for your dear sake, my love.)