I Should Like to Live...

I should like to live in a land of light
where there is no time and there is no night
to breathe an air that's cloyed with wine
and on ambrosia and sweet nectar dine.

For in this place at the end of the Sea
my secret curses and dark thoughts would flee.
This heart would know that the world gives nought
and discover the truth it so long has sought.

Yet far away seems the marvelous land.
There's no mortal ship will take me into His hand
and greater than His love, His mysteries seem,
to eyes that are searching for a shore unseen.

Scarlet