To the world’s end, to the world’s end,

Did I wander seeking you,

And wide was the water and dark was the fell,

With Time at my heels like a hound of hell,

And the worst still left to do.

To the world’s end, to the world’s end,

And the void to verify.

They told me of a tale of love supreme.

“Sometimes,” I cried, “I have caught the gleam,

I shall seek it tho’ I die.”

At the world’s end, at the world’s end,

At the end of the endless mile,

Nothing to see but the silent snow—

I turned with my tears to your heart, and lo!

Love was with me all the while!