My love grows cold in murk unknown, Under the glass surface of water deep; She calls to shore with voice so sweet With songs that seize my heart alone. This woman of water her death atoned, With my love beneath the waves to keep; Her promise is liquid never to weep For those who I’ve left now that I am gone. Yet, what of my life that I left on the shore And what of the creature who I call my wife; Whose beauty and loveliness have taken my life From shelter of land to oceanic floor. Sign of the Cross save me from drowned death, My lust and my lover are taking my breath.
Painting - Ivan Kramskoi - The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.
Whispers of Horatio Hornblower