This is the fifth track 'Karoryon Porthgwartha' (The Lovers of Porthgwarra) of this sampler medley: [url]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33Mu858BSc[/url]
One night when the sea was so tranquil and I
strangely restless not sleeping,
A lonely silhouette, I went walking to breathe in
the night-scented air.
On a black rock flooded by moonshine
Sat two lovers so sweetly oblivious
While the tide rose and washed all around
them, transfixed, I just stood and I stared.
“I am thine, thou art mine, beyond control.
In the wave, be the grave of heart and soul.”
For they merged with the soft, lapping waters,
no panic nor terror displaying,
Yet I thought I perceived their two voices, so
gentle, so peaceful yet clear.
They returned without breaking the surface,
looked me full in the face strangely smiling;
Then they kissed before finally sinking, never
again to appear.
“I am thine, thou art mine, beyond control.
In the wave, be the grave of heart and soul.”
No more than a day or two later, in a neighbouring
cove lay a body:
On the smooth, golden sand was incumbent a
maiden serene and so fair.
It was then that I learned the sad story
Of a maiden and youth and their passion:
How their families insisted they parted, for the
young man, a sailor’s career.
“I am thine, thou art mine, beyond control.
In the wave, be the grave of heart and soul.”
And their very last living encounter in a cove
where by chance I went walking,
By full moon they had vowed, dead or living, to
meet at the end of three years.
From abroad followed news quite amazing,
For that very same night I’d been walking,
It seemed that the young man had perished:
His death had confirmed my worst fears.
“I am thine, thou art mine, beyond control.
In the wave, be the grave of heart and soul.”
This was the lovers’ song - at Porthgwarra.
