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Is it a sin to love thee?
Then my soul is deeply dyed,
for my lifeblood, as it gushes,
takes its crimson from love's tide;
And I feel its waves roll o'er me
and the blushes mount my brow
and my pulses quicken wildly,
as love dreams come and go:
I feel my spirit's weakness;
I know my spirit's power;
I have felt my proud heart struggle
in temptation's trying hour;
Yet amid the din of conflict,
bending o'er life's hallowed shrine,
Yielding all, my soul had murmured
I am thine, forever thine!
Is it a sin to love thee?
What were existence worth,
Bereft of all the heaven
that lingers here on earth!
Friendship's smiles,like gleams of sunlight,
shed their feeling o'er the heart,
But the soul still cries for something more
than friendship can impart.
Frozen hearts, like life bound eyries,
that no summer ray can melt,
Vainly boast their power to conquer
what their hearts have never felt;
But envy not their glory,
'mid the rapture that is mine,
When with an earnest soul I tell thee
I am thine, forever thine.
Is it a sin to love thee?
Gentle voices round me fall,
and I press warm hearts around me
-But I've given thee my all.
Though stern fate divides us,
and our hands, not our hearts be riven-
May all of earth thou have- wilt more?
I dare not offer heaven.
But in some blessed moment,
when our darkend eyes flashing meet,
I feel thy power so near me,
fell thy heart's quick pulses beat,
Then I know- my God forgive me!-
I would everything resign,
All I have, or all I hope for-
to be thine- forever thine.
Is it a sin to love thee?
I remember well the hour
When we would our love to conquer,
risist temptation's power;
When I felt my heart was breaking,
and all my life was gone;
When I wept the hour that I met thee
and the hour that I was born;
But a hidden storm was raging,
and amid the muffled din
I flung my arms upon thy bosom,
with thy warm hands clasped in mine,
I smiled through tears and murmured:
I am thine, forever thine.
Is it a sin to love thee?
with love's signet on thy brow?
Though thy lot be as dark as Hades,
I'll cling to thee now;
Not mine the heart to fail thee,
when other cheeks grow pale;
We have shared the storm together;
I'll stand by thee through the gale.
Though our bark my drift asunder,
yet, with true hearts beating high,
Let the golden sunlight cheer us,
or the angery storm clouds fly.
From our helms with steady brightness
our beacon lights shall shine,
And the watchwords on our pennons
shall be- thine, forever thine.
Is it a sin to love thee?
When I bend my knee in prayer,
And before a High Omniscience
my burdened heart lay bare,
On a breath of love to heaven
ascends thy blessed name,
And I plead weak and erring nature,
if loving thee be a shame.
Heaven knows 'tis no light sacrifice
I've offered up to thee,
but my being's destiny.
since our fates we my not conquer here,
divide thy lot from mine-
In starlit world above us,
call me thine- forever thine.
 YazLana · Mon Jun 30, 2008 @ 04:11am · 0 Comments |
