Beyond the Grave

Love me till the grass dies on my grave

Love me till the earth rots my bones

For by then we shall have been joined

And new life will have crossed my loins

Someday we shall meet again

For death is only a minute's pain

Eternity carries forth the fire of love

That shall be fully sapped by us

And my love, my grave will become just a spot

To mark a place where I once was

A hole in which a shell of mine was lost

Now we are joined in a place that is new

Life is life in which we are two

Come what may, we'll have time to play

And make love May after May

Year after year, our bodies will meet

Continually joyful love will be sweet

Man and wife will easily be lost

And bodies will glitter like fields of frost

Like fields of frost