Loch Tay

[hemial]

Loch Tay

Oh Dear. My Love. Didst not thou
Make to me a precious vow?
Hadst thou not back then laid thine
Life and heart, Dear, into mine?

Oh Dear. My Love. Tell me why
Leaveth thou now? In grief I sigh
O'er the hours in love we sat;
O'er the day our hearts first met.

Pouted lips, so inn'cent and shy
Oh Dear. My Love. Yet I shall cry.
Hair like floating gold – porcelain skin.
Eyes as deep as the seas of sin.

How canst thou leave t'wards this place
Where we once laid in sweet embrace
Forever now? How shall I live
When thou hast left me here in grief?

With swollen eyes I walk thy way.
Thy way you walked to Loch Tay.
I follow thee. My Love, I do.
Who else deserved then my woo?

Opaque my sight, I walk thy way.
I pray I will not go astray.
My will is firm – I follow thee.
Ne'er will excitement o'ercome me

As beautiful as 'twas in thine
So tender arms, warm and divine.
Oh Dear. My Love. So welcome me
Once I have found my way to thee.

Come over me, you waters cold!
Refuse not me. Don't be so bold.
You waters deep, come take me down!
Take to my ears your rippling sound.

You waters cold, you waters deep
Cover me – in you I steep.
Return to me the loves I lost!
I take them back at any cost.

And if it is predict'd to me
To drown in you, to melt with thee
Then take my payment, waters deep.
Wash my eyes while now they weep.

Wash away my salty tears.
Drink me up. And when thou hear'st
Your waves as they're engulfing me
Thou shouldst receive me now with thee.

Oh Dear. My Love. Now come, be mine.
Let my body melt with thine.
Let the three of us prevail,
Here, in the waters of Loch Tay.