The sea sings to me, too: songs of shores far distant, songs of times long gone, promises of treasures old and lands new. The seagulls soar o’er the shoals, and the waves lap the sands.

I think of you, my love, and wonder where you are, when you’ll return. You, who heard not my pleading o’er the ocean’s siren calls.

May God preserve you from storms and selkies, pirates and perils of all kinds, and may He return you safe to me.