IF YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE ME - by Anonymous

 

IF  YOU'RE  GOING  TO  LOVE  ME by Anonymous If you're ever going to love me love me now, while I can knowAll the sweet and tender feelings which from real affection flow.Love me now, while I am living; do not wait till I am goneAnd 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 a drop of water sweetWould 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;I won't crave your love or kisses in my last low 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.