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Ask if I love thee? Oh, smiles cannot tell / Plainer what tears are now showing too well.
Had I not loved thee, my sky had been clear: / Had I not loved thee, I had not been here, / Weeping by thee.
Ask if I love thee? How else could I borrow / Pride from man's slander, and strength from my sorrow? / Laugh when they sneer at the fanatic's bride, / Knowing no bliss, save to toil and abide / Weeping by thee.
Andernach on the Rhine, / August 1851.