Leave Me Alone a Little

Leave me alone a little ! Must I be yours, When all my heart is pouring with the sea Out to the moon's impersonal majesty?

Leave me alone ! My little vow endures Men's irritating love, surviving yours! Surviving all, surviving even you.

Leave me alone. This is no rendezvous : I am not false except with my old sea and moon, You understand me? Wait behind the dune?

Oh, level glow, oh, soft, soft-spoken sea — Leave me alone. Why will you follow me !