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Kiss me, sweetheart. One by one / Swift and sure the moments run.
Soon, too soon, for you and me / Gone for aye the day will be.
Do not let time cheat us then, / Kiss me often and again.
Every time a moment slips / Let us count it on our lips
While we're kissing, strife and pain / Cannot come between us twain.
If we pause too long a space, / Who can tell what may take place?
You may pout, and I may scold, / Souls be sundered, hearts grow cold;
Death may come, and love take wings; / Oh! a thousand cruel things
May creep in to spoil the day, / If we throw the time away.
Let us time, the cheater, cheat, / Kiss me, darling, kiss me, sweet.