When Lovers Meet Again

When lovers meet again
Then obscure ways grow plain
Then crooked paths are straight
And rough places smooth
Then weariness and weight
Have wings as wide as love
For night is as the day;
Love smiles love's tears away
And all hard paths are smooth
When lovers meet again

When lovers kiss again
The dry bough blossoms then;
Then rolls away the stone;
Earth's bitterness is balm;
Light through the night is blown;
Peace rocks the world in calm;
And the ebbing tide is full:
For two souls are one soul
And obscrue ways grow plain
When lovers meet again