by Marguerite Merington (1857 - 1951)

If
Language: English 
If Love would tell or Love could guess
What heart and lip would fain confess,
Ah, sweetheart,
If!

If Love could read with daedal art
One May-morn maiden's wayward heart,
Ah, sweetheart,
If!

If Love had known the fancied claim
Which bowed his head in needless shame,
Ah, sweetheart,
If!

If Love from doubt in trust would rise;
If only earth were Paradise,
Ah, sweetheart,
If!

Note for the Templeton-Strong set: The printed scores contain errors of punctuation not corrected against the composer’s original manuscript. See https://patrinum.ch/record/242915?ln=en&v=pdf.


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