"When nights suspend by burdened thought"

When nights suspend by burdened thought,
With loneliness is my heart fraught.
When thoughts of you would touch my heart,
It brings me tears that we would part.
When wake I from my dreams of you,
My heart is grieved to see it through.
Such sadness has but shown my mind
This heart hast found that special love.
Though when in love you gaze I find
‘Tis sorrow that I’m set above.
Yet in your absence, I will love,
For ‘twas your heart I did await,
Whose love would touch my soul, my fate.

But when you part I pray for sleep,
For when you’re gone I fear so much.
I pray at night your heart to keep.
‘Tis for your love I pray too much.
For if it’s found that I could know
How your heart pains, it would be so
That I could let these worries go
And once again could find some rest…
But was it then I slept the best?
When there was none whose love I missed
Did I not pray to dream of this?
And when I laid awake each night,
Would I not long for love so bright?
Did anguish haunt my ev’ry night?

So when I pause to think of you,
I pray in thanks for love so true.
Forget I such a pain as this
As when I find your love I miss.
With joy I pray and thank the Lord
That I am in your eyes adored;
That through the pain and through the tears,
You’d hold me tight and face our fears;
That when I find myself distressed,
You rest your head upon my chest.
You feel my heart and know my thoughts
And guide my soul so lovingly.
You show me how in love you’re caught:
Beneath my arm, you’re caught with me.
You give me love, though I could not
Believe with me your love was bought.
But now I feel it in your kiss
That such a love sublime is this...
In such a simple, brilliant kiss,
That such a love sublime is this.