I love you so!
What sacrifice is meet
That I should make, my sweet,
That I might show
My love in some rich way,
To brighten all your day?
To keep from strife
Our years of love, dear wife?
I love you so!
My life is naught to me--
Of use to none but thee--
Oh, that you know!
Yet would its end once bring
You joy, how could I cling
To it, and bear
The thought it brought you care?
I love you so!
There is no death I fear
To save you pain, my dear.
For death I owe
To love, for your sweet grace!
Loved vision of your face
Rest in my eyes,
When death takes my last sighs.
I love you so!
My own, my precious mate,
I fear not any fate--
No pain, no woe--
So long as I may die
Beneath the smiling sky.
Your eyes for me
Make heaven’s canopy!