A Seal Upon Your Heart
Beneath
the apple tree I roused your love,
there
where your mother toiled to give you birth.
Love
is the greatest gift from heav’n above,
the
strongest force existing on the earth.
Oh,
place me like a seal upon your heart
and
wear me as an emblem on your arm
that
I may never from you be apart
for
when I’m near you I feel safe from harm.
Love
is as strong as death and burns like fire,
its
jealousy unyielding as the grave.
Great
streams of water cannot quench desire,
no
floods or torrents nor a tidal wave.
If
one thought he could buy true love with gold
he
would be scorned and scoffed at manifold.
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| A Classical Beauty, John William Godward, 1902 |
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