IF I DARE
I’ll sing a little song
Of you dear one,
’Twill be long as the day
And bright like the sun
If I dare.
I’ll gather from the garden
This big red rose
To kiss your cheeks
While sweet breezes blow
If I dare.
Your face is ne’er out of my dreams
Deep in my heart sweet memories bring,
Oh! I will love you, dear, you only,
Till death with bitterness bring
If I dare.
My mind is with you
Though my eyes are in tears,
My heart is being pierced
With Cupid’s golden spear,
But yet I’d return
If I dare.
Oh! how sad with you
Were my past,
The present was sweet
So long as it lasts.
JUST NOW
No one knows, and no one sees,
No one gives my heart any ease,
Just now.
If I could speak to the one I love
My heart would lose that feeling that makes me mourn like a dove,
Just now.
Once you shadowed me in my dreams,
But that, too, is gone it really seems,
Just now.