She burned like fire Fearless and proud Her beauty without its like Her laughter I will remember to this day Our destiny seemed bound together Two young souls in the embrace In the embrace of forever The opal heart of afternoon Was clouding on to throbs of storm Ashen within the ardent west The lips of thunder muttered harm And as a bubble like to break Hung heaven's trembling amethyst When with the sedge-grass by the lake I braceleted her wrist And when the ribbon grass was tied Sad with the happiness we planned Palm linked in palm we stood awhile And watched the raindrops dot the sand Until the anger of the breeze Chid all the lake's bright breathing down And ravished all the radiancies From her deep eyes of brown Ashamed of nothing, we ran Across the fields of afternoon Swam at night in pools Like children under the moon The memory of her sweet caress never fades Together in defiance of all the world Drowned in the night's dark splendour of her eyes While we watched the night's demise Set alight by a great desire She burned like fire Fearless and proud Her beauty without its like Her laughter I remember to this day Spent the days of our youth In sweet reprieve Our time seemed everlasting Everlasting