To ask for all thy love

To ask for all thy love, and thy whole heart

'twere madness,

I do not sue,

nor can admit

fairest from you

to have all, yet

who gieth all hath nothing to impart,

but sadness

He that receiveth all, can have no more

than seeing.

My love by length

of every hour,

gathers new strength,

new growth, new flow'r.

You must have daily new rewards in store,

still being.

You cannot every day give me your heart

for merit:

Yet if you will,

when yours doth go,

you shall have still

one to bestow:

For you shall mine when yours doth hence depart

inherit.

Yet if you please, I'll find a better way.

Than change them:

For so alone

Dearest we shall

be one and one,

another's all.

Let us so join our hearts that nothing may

estrange them.