JONJI

- - - The stones that stand in yonder vale
- - - Have brooded for five thousand years;
- - - It was there I met my Elfin love,
- - - And he brought me joy and tears.
- - - And how his hair was like the corn
- - - When first he smiled upon me;
- - - He was a dream loosed from the stone -
- - - And he said his name was Jonji.

Jonji, Oh Jonji;
Not of the race of Adam was he,
Nor of any nature ever born to die;
The sun and the rain were living in him -
He was the child of Earth and Sky ......

And he said, "Come with me
To the enchanted land where Time cannot bind,
Where your youth and beauty will not ever flee."
I went with him to the elfin dell .....
I danced the night away with Jonji.
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Half an hour before the sunrise
He heard the Heaven call him in the stillness of his heart;
By some strange unearthly nature did he from me fly -
And I awoke on the bleak hillside
Lonely as the stones that ringed the sky.

When I returned, only strangers came to greet me,
And all the world I knew had vanished into Time -
Gone with all the lives of those who'd waited long for me ......
For a hundred years had aged them all
While I had danced with Jonji.

Jonji, Oh Jonji;
Fairer than the sunbright corn was he;
I'll never see my Elfin love again before I die -
He's in every flower and woodland glade;
He lives for me in Earth and Sky ......

And if the sky goes on and on forever,
Then I know my Love will never die.

Jonji, Jonji,
- - - "Come with me ...."

Jonji, Jonji,
- - - "Come with me ...."