I seem to have loved you in numberless forms,
numberless times,
In life after life, in age after age forever.
My spell-bound heart has made and re-made the necklace of songs
That you take as a gift, make use for awhile,
n keep it away, as an antique once graced.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love,
its age-old pain,
its ancient tale of being apart and together,
As I stare on and on into the past,
In the end you emerge.
Clad in the light of a pole-star,
piercing the darkness of time.
You and I have floated here on the stream,
that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time love of one for another.
We have played alongside millions of lovers,
shared in the sameshy sweetness of meeting,
the same distressfull tears of farewell,
Old love, but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
You have become an image,
of what is remembered forever in my heart.
And an image that has dwelt tears,
in these eyes... far and apart.