Dark Eyes

I've known them forever:
They've haunted my slumber,
and called to me out of the deeps of space.
The love that they promise
Has helped me remember
Another time, a caring embrace.

Dark eyes in the morning,
Dark eyes in the evening,
Dark eyes in the starlight at the end of the day:
Dark eyes that speak silence,
They whisper, "Come find me:
You'll never know true love, if you stay."

Now I seek them in the wintertime,
Oh, I seek them in the spring:
Those two dark eyes draw my heart away
To where sun and moon sing!

I laugh now in the summertime,
When ripples on the river play.
I laugh, soaring with the meadowlarks.
Love has made my heart gay.

I've known them forever:
They've haunted my slumber,
And called to me out of the deeps of space.
The love that they promise
Has helped me remember
Another time, a caring embrace.

---Donald Walters, Mystic Harp 2