• If you're ever going to love me,love me now
    while I can know
    All the sweet and tender feelings which
    from real affection flow.
    Love me now,while I am living;do now wait
    till I am gone
    And then chisel it in marble,warm love words
    on ice-cold stone.




    If you've dear sweet thoughts about me,why
    not whisper them to me?
    Don't you know it would make me happy and as
    glad as could be?
    If you wait till I am sleeping,ne'er to waken
    here again,
    There'll be a wall of earth between us and I
    couldn't hear you then.



    I won't need you kind caresses when the grass
    grows over my face;
    I won't crave your love or kisses in my last resting place.
    So,then,if you love me any,if it's but a
    little bit
    Let me know it now while living; I can own and
    treasure it.