The Siren's Admonition

Wherefore love your secret love?
You are bashful and beating sighs are repeating
Over the burden of your disguise

Wherefore hide your fleeting pearls?
Divers deep never reach the shallows
Why keep them near to the shore?
No use bearing them more

Sigh, I die, dear, without you
All I find, I can't own you
I delight in merely to
Call me blind, I swear I saw right through

Wherefore din the sands of time?
Who can scarcely believe we're sinking beneath?
Don't hold it, behold it, it's not yours or mine

Sigh, I die, dear, without you
All I find, I can't own you
I delight in merely to
Call me blind, I swear I saw right through