“Soft hours of tender idleness
Await both you and me
For splendid colours of forgetfulness
Now clothe the placid sea;
Banishing our cares and sorrows
And all that makes us weep,
As the sea from the sunset borrows
A veil to hide the deep.
Soft hours of tender idleness
For you and me to share;
Upon our sea of joyfulness;
A sea beyond compare.
With tender sighs and sweet caresses
I strive to honour you
And with hours of languid kisses
Upon our sea of blue.