Let my life be taken,
No more wish I to remain,
Upon this ship of sadness,
In the sea of sorrow’s rain.

Sail me to the white shores,
Where life is evergreen,
Away from this world of black,
Where all my life I’ve been.

So sing to me this last sweet song,
So that forever in my ears,
Its sweet melody will ring,
Beyond memory and years.

For then I will know happiness,
No more in darkness dwell,
For white purity will overtake,
This black and dreary hell…