Dear Crystal-Heart, I pray that you
May do what I set out to do,
Easily and happily attain
What I have striven for in vain,
All that, for some infirmity
Of soul, life has denied to me.

May you breathe out as some blithe bird
All that my heart awaking heard
And laboured daylong to express
Through cloudy passion and sharp stress,
Till gushing from its crystal spring
Your song in all men's hearts shall sing:

And in that music clear and true
Even I at last attain through you.