A Quiet Song For Ellen The Patient Ellen Ray, A Dreamer In The Nightfall, A Watcher In The Day. The Wedded Of The Sailor Who Keeps So Far Away: A Shadow On His Forehead For Patient Ellen Ray. When Autumn Winds Were Driving Across The Chafing Bay, He Said The Words Of Anger That Wasted Ellen Ray: He Said The Words Of Anger And Went His Bitter Way: Her Dower Was The Darkness The Patient Ellen Ray. Your Comfort Is A Phantom, My Patient Ellen Ray; You House It In The Night-Time, It Fronts You In The Day; And When The Moon Is Very Low And When The Lights Are Grey, You Sit And Hug A Sorry Hope, My Patient Ellen Ray! You Sit And Hug A Sorry Hope Yet Who Will Dare To Say, The Sweetness Of October Is Not For Ellen Ray? The Bearer Of A Burden Must Rest At Fall Of Day; And You Have Borne A Heavy One, My Patient Ellen Ray.