Cornish Lament
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
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Fair head, come home to me.
Home from jealous sea,
Long weeks I've watched for you,
door unlatched for you.
Door and heart open —
Fair head, come home to me!
Lad, when you sailed away
Gulls cried the livelong day —
Meg wept where all might see,
"Fair head, come home to me."
I found no to say,
Watching you sail away.
Meg cried, "Shame on the sea,
Fair head, come home me!"
Nay, but I made no moan
When the sea took my own,
No moan where could see
For lover lost to me.
Only, when star to star
Gleams where the rock-pools are —
Only, when lights at sea
Show boats dear to me,
Then am I free to cry.
Up to the watching sky.
Then to sea I lean —
Dipping my hands therein.
Whispering as now I do,
Low to the — and you,
"Drowned and dead though you be,
Fair head, come home to me!"
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