And Hollow

Out of another world you come to me
And hollow, hollow, hollow as the tomb
Sound the indifferent words that speak my doom

And hollow, hollow, hollow can it be

My voice that sounds so strangely in my ears
You bid me speak, and I, in dumb despair
Forgetting all my agonies of prayer

Beckon to you across a mist of tears

All’s over now I know that you are lost
And love is dead, for I have met Love’s ghost