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 not 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 'twould make me happy and as glad as glad could be'?

If you wait till I am sleeping, ne'er to waken here again,

There'll be walls of earth between us and I couldn't hear you then.

If you knew someone was thirsting for the drop of water sweet

would you be so slow to bring it? Would you step with laggard feet?

There are tender hearts all round us who are thirsting for our love;

Why withhold from them what nature makes them crave all else above?

I won't need your kind caresses when the grass grows o'er my face;

So, then, if you love me any, if it's but a little bit,

Let me know it while living; I can own and treasure it.

-UNKNOWN

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