A LOVE TEST
SWEET, do you ask me if you love or no?
Soon will your answers to my questions show:
If in your cheeks hot blushes come and go,
Like rose-leaves shaken on new-fallen snow;
If tender sorrows in your heart arise,
And sudden teardrops tremble in your eyes;
If from my presence you would sigh to part,
Believe me, darling, I have touched your heart.
If when I speak your blue-veined eyelids sink,
And veil the thoughts you scarcely dare to think:
If when I greet you, hardly you reply,
And when we part, but breathe a faint “Good-bye!”
If your sweet face to mine you cannot raise,
Yet fear not so to meet another’s gaze;
If all these things to make you glad combine,
Believe me, darling, that your heart is mine.
Carl Herlozssohn.