I
Not from the whole wide world I chose thee —
  Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! 
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, 
  For thou art the whole wide world to me.

II
Years have flown since I knew thee first,
  And I know thee as water is known of thirst;
Yet I knew thee of old at the first sweet sight,
  And thou art strange to me, Love, to-night.