• Thou art mine, thou hast given thy word;
      Close, close in my arms thou art clinging;
      Alone for my ear thou art singing
    A song which no stranger hath heard:
    But afar from me yet, like a bird,
    Thy soul, in some region unstirred,
      On its mystical circuit is winging.

    Thou art mine, I have made thee mine own;
      Henceforth we are...