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First Line: Were you a leper bathed in wounds
Last Line: Its impetus and goal!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Love


Were you a leper bathed in wounds
And by the world denied,
I'd share your fatal exile
As a privilege, with pride.

You are the very sun, the moon,
The starlight of my soul,
The sounding motif of my heart
Its impetus and goal!





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