• If you are ever going to love me,

    Love me now,

    While I can Know,

    The sweet and tender feelings,

    Which from true affection flow.

    Love me now,

    while I am living.

    Do not wait until I'm gone,

    And then

    Have it chiseled in marble,

    sweet words on ice-cold stone.

    You have tender thoughts of me,

    Please tell me now.

    If you wait,

    Until I'm sleeping,

    Never to awaken;

    There will be death between us,

    And I wont hear you then.

    So

    If you love me,

    Even a little bit,

    Let me know,

    While I'm living,

    So I can tresure it.