If only I could / find a lulla- / by in- / side a bell
If only I could / find a garden / when
the bath / is full / of water

O sensitive bell / ringing only / when
the water it / turns hot

Bell that tells / me when to sink / my body
deep in / pearl-sweat

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Bath where no / hand reaches
Bell / my song / it

sung

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If only I could / find a clock / of water
If only time / pooled out / be- / fore me

If only I could / plunge the clock / into the bath
And bleed / right in- / to time

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If only I could / find a hill to / climb
Green and green- / er still

Soaked in pearl-/ sweat / and clothed / in ivy
Or hiding / behind deer

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If only I could find / a window to peer / through,
and / ivy snaking / up

If only pearls like / milk pre- / served, like / tears
up- / on the sea

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The texture of / blood up- / on my leg, / small and
small- / est pearl