If you could sit with me beside    the sea today    And whisper with me sweetest    dreamings o'er and o'er    I think I should not find the    clouds so dim and grey    And not so loud the waves complaining    at the shore    If you could sit with me upon the    shore today    And hold my hand in yours as in    the days of old    I think I should not mind the chill    baptismal spray    Nor find my hand and heart and    all the world so cold       But love is the light of the world my dear    Alas for hopeless hoping    When the lights went out in the storm that blew    And a soul when blindly groping       If you could walk with me upon    the strand today    And tell me that my longing love    had won your own    I think then all my sad thoughts could    then be put away    And I could give back laughter    for the ocean's moon