If you're ever going to love me
If
you’re ever going to love me love me now, while I can know
All
the sweet and tender feelings which from real affection flow.
Love
me now, while I am living; do not wait till I am gone
And
then chisel it in marble-warm love words on ice cold stone.
If
you’ve dear, sweet thoughts about me, why not whisper them to me?
Don’t
you know ‘twould make me happy and as glad as glad could be?
If
you wait till I am sleeping, ne’er to waken here again,
There’ll
be walls of earth between us and I couldn’t hear you then.
If
you knew someone was thirsting for a drop of water sweet
Would
you be so slow to bring it? Would you step with laggard feet?
There
are tender hearts all round us who are thirsting for our love;
Why
withhold from them what nature makes them crave all else above?
I
won’t need your kind caresses when the grass grows o’er my face;
I
won’t crave your love or kisses in my last low resting place.
So,
then, if you love me any, if it’s but a little bit,
Let
me know it now while living; I can own and treasure it.
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