IF you could sit with me beside the sea to-day, <br />And whisper with me sweetest dreamings o'er and o'er; <br />I think I should not find the clouds so dim and gray, <br />And not so loud the waves complaining at the shore. <br />If you could sit with me upon the shore to-day, <br />And hold my hand in yours as in the days of old, <br />I think I should not mind the chill baptismal spray, <br />Nor find my hand and heart and all the world so cold. <br />If you could walk with me upon the strand to-day, <br />And tell me that my longing love had won your own, <br />I think all my sad thoughts would then be put away, <br />And I could give back laughter for the Ocean's moan!<br /><br />Paul Laurence Dunbar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/longing-74/
