Hold you close as night prevails
Lay a spell if all else fails
Never to awaken and take flight
Never seemed as one that might
But to make certain in my aim
From her rosy lips I must
May you stay as beautiful as now,
Across the tides of time.
May you be a relic in my heart,
Across the tides of time.
May we age together and forever,
Across the tides of time.
May we learn to
If faith be lost in thy own skill,
Come to me and have your fill.
For all things virtue in us resides;
Whether fair or foul, and besides,
What is a man that never ails?
What is a friend that in