Volume 2 — From London Society. TENDER AND TRUE AND TRIED.
Reading edition
Tender and true. You kept faith with me, As I kept faith with you;— Though over us both Since we plighted troth Long years have rolled:— But our love could hold Through troubles and trials manifold, My darling tender and true! Tender and true, In your eyes I gazed, And my heart was safe, I knew! Your trusting smile Was pure of guile, And I read in sooth On your brow's fair youth The earnest of loyal trust and truth, My darling tender and true! Tender and true. All my own at last! My blessing for all life through— In death as life My one loved wife— Mine—mine at last, All troubles past— And the future all happiness, deep and vast. My darling tender and true!
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