If I bid yoUy you will come. 
If I bid you, you will go, 
You are mine, and lo I take you 
To my heart, your home ; 
Well, ah, well I know 
I shall not forsake you. 

I shall always hold you fast, 
I shall never set you free. 
You are mine, and I possess you 
Long as life shall last ; 
You will comfort me, 
I shall bless you. 

I shall keep you as we keep 
Flowers for memory, hid away. 
Under many a newer token 
Buried deep, 
Roses of a gaudier day. 
Rings and trinkets, bright and broken. 

Other women I shall love, 
Fame and fortune I may win. 
But when fame and love forsake me 
And the light is night above, 
You will let me in. 
You will take me.