No deep abyss of ocean drowns like hate, br Entombing all within its murky depth, br Consigning struggling hope to lose all breath br And plunge, submerging to her final fate. br No lofty mountain climbs to hate’s full height br Which no appeasing plea can ever scale br And reconciliation can but fail br If she should try surmounting in her plight. br No spreading sea is wider that hate’s breadth br Which no barque of compassion tries to cross br For it is sure to founder, with the loss br Of innocence, condemned to dismal death. br But hate itself can swim, and climb and sail br Away, if love returns to reconcile.