Lorna's song

Alicia Adélaïda Needham

Love, an if there be one,

Come my love to be,

My love is for the one

Loving unto me.

Not for me the show, love,

Of a gilded bliss;

Only thou must know, love,

What my value is.

If in all the earth, love,

Thou hast none but me,

This shall be my worth, love:

To be cheap to thee.

But, if so thou ever

Strivest to be free,

'Twill be my endeavour

To be dear to thee.

So shall I have plea, love,

Is thy heart and breath

Clinging still to thee, love,

In the doom of death.