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Across sea and fields, two hearts answer.
English poem-song direction · Bollywood duet, fado colour, guitar and accordion
The published text places sections labelled Poem beside added refrains, bridge and closing lines. Its direction names Robert Browning’s Meeting at Night; this is a song with poem passages and extensions, not an attribution of every line to the original poem.
An English sea-ballad direction brings a Bollywood duet together with Portuguese fado colour, acoustic guitar, soft accordion and warm strings. Waves and matchlight set the scale: a long crossing can end in a very quiet meeting.
Read the lyrics
[Intro]
A dark sea crossing, a hidden flame,
A heart that whispers one beloved name.
[Poem]
The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
[Refrain]
Across the yellow sand,
I come to take your hand.
Through sea and night, through moon and foam,
Your hidden light is home.
[Poem]
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Bridge]
Let the waves be soft, let the matchlight glow,
Let the two hearts answer low.
No sudden thunder, no fading tone,
Only night bringing lovers home.
[Final Refrain]
Across the yellow sand,
I come to take your hand.
Through sea and night, through moon and foam,
Your hidden light is home.
[Outro]
The match goes out, the dark is sweet,
Two hearts in silence meet.
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