If

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!