Cornish Lament
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
Track 1
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Fair head, come home to me!"
Door and heart open be —
For lover lost to me.
Show boats not dear to me,
Gleams where the rock-pools are —
Lad, when you sailed away
Up to the watching sky.
"Drowned and dead though you be,
Gulls cried the livelong day —
No moan where men could see
Nay, but I made no moan
Long weeks I've watched for you,
Fair head, come home to me!
Meg cried, "Shame on the sea,
Watching you sail away.
"Fair head, come home to me."
Only, when star to star
Fair head, come home to me.
Low to the sea — and you,
I found no words to say,
Whispering as now I do,
My door unlatched for you.
Fair head, come home to me!"
Then am I free to cry.
Then to the sea I lean —
Dipping my hands therein.
Meg wept where all might see,
Only, when lights at sea
When the sea took my own,
Home from the jealous sea,
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