Crowd your heart unto mine,
These are the tears that refine
Our measure of love, these awaken
The dawn, now the shadows are shaken.

This is your alchemy,
What seemed impurity
Is honest gold to the core of it,
Such is the man-old lore of it.

Now in your tears I have found you,
Fearing to lose you, and bound you
Cord by cord to my heart,
Yours is the greater part.