I LOVE YOU SO!

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!