To Eternity

Wilt thou go with me, sweet maid
Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
Through the valley-depths of shade
Of night and dark obscurity
Where the path has lost its way
Where the sun forgets the day
Where there's nor life nor light to see
Sweet maiden, wilt thou go with me!

Where stones will turn to flooding streams
Where plains will rise like ocean waves
Where life will fade like visioned dreams
And mountains darken into caves

Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
Through this sad non-identity
Where parents live and are forgot
And sisters live and know us not!

Say, maiden; wilt thou go with me
In this strange death of life to be
To live in death and be the same
Without this life or home or name
At once to be and not to be
That was and is not yet to see
Things pass like shadows, and the sky
Above, below, around us lie?

Where stones will turn to flooding streams
Where plains will rise like ocean waves
Where life will fade like visioned dreams
And mountains darken into caves

Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
Through this sad non-identity
Where parents live and are forgot
And sisters live and know us not!