If you are 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’m gone

And chisel it in marble-warm love words on ice cold stone

If you have dear, sweet thoughts about me, why not whisper them to me?

Don’t you know ‘twould make me happy and glad as could be?

If you wait until I am sleeping, never to waken here again

There’ll be walls of earth between us and I could’nt here you then

If you know someone was thirsting for a drop of water sweet,

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

There are tender hearts all around us who are thirsting for your love;

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

I won’t need your kind caress

when the grass grows over your face,

I won’t crave for your love and kisses

in my last low resting place,

So if you love me even if it’s a little bit,

Let me know while I am living; so I can own and cherish it.^^,