For I have felt the mighty force of love,

Life’s surging torrent seeming tempest born

Where wind and wave stirred by brash Heaven above

Turn halcyon delight to raging storm;

Haughty sun restrained by rain and roiled clouds—

Wrought passion pure to vex a placid sea,

Almighty blessed to court sky splendored bows

That beckon hope…still ever yet to be.

So rages then impassioned hearts and souls

To stand defiant on tumultuous shores

Fair set to plunge into fret foaming shoals

Where singularity shall sing no more…

And as sogged sea nymphs lost on billowed main,

So drown in unplumbed depths of joy and pain.