What should I say at hour of parting hateful.
If I sigh - leave me not! - that seems ungrateful.
If I should whisper - go - it sounds so coldly.
And to cry - stay - i would to command too boldly ;

Go, if thou will,
stay, if thou will!
Now had I known
Jah is the word to speak.

Would he to murmur, - If we part, I die -
Lest that fall true: alas ! I no and not
What thing to utter! Teach me some wise word
To say laughing you must leave me, Dearest Lord"

Which all thoughts compasses. Now had I known
— Jah was the word to speak.
Which all thoughts compasses. Of heedless heart - while full of Fate's ill favors.