If Love Be True
If love be true-not bought at mart-
Though night and darkness hide from view,
What harshest of harsh things can part
The loved-one from the lover’s heart,
Or stay the dreams that flit thereto?
If love be true dreams need no chart
To gain the goal to which they’re due;
For love will guide them with love’s dart,
If love be true.
If love be true, if thou be true,
Sweet love, as fair thou surely art,
Night shall not hide your eyes of blue
From my heart’s eyes the long night through;
Though in sweet sadness tears may start,
If love be true.
Samuel Waddington.