So You Love Me

SO you love me, have no care;Mine will be the strength to darePerils that without your loveGreater than my strength might prove.Never any knight who hadFelt your touch an accolade,But had grown more brave, more true,Sweetheart! sweetheart!—Loved by you.

In your chalice, my one rose,All earth's fragrance you enclose;Through your light, my one, one star,Heaven draws me from afar.Easy were it to lay downAll things save your love,—my crown,And, in dying, life renew,Sweetheart! sweetheart!—Loved by you.