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"If you love me as I love you" -- / (Ah, sweet those words to lover's ear, / 'Twas Lois spake, in accents true, / So loving, tender, kind and dear.)
"If you love me as I love you" -- / (Ah, heaven and earth were wrapped in bliss, / The wild rose listened, dissolved in dew; / The very zephyrs sought her kiss.)
"If you love me as I love you" -- / (Ah, strains from Paradise her words! ) / "And if I do, what then? " I asked; / While round us winged the listening birds.
"If you love me as I love you -- " / She raised those fringed eyes of jet, / And whispered low in pleading tones: / "Just fill the wood box, will you, pet? "