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[Sweet smile on the cheek of thy home, where]
Sweet smile on the cheek of thy home, where
Joy burst on thy young spirit's waking;
Canst give its endearments to come, where
Life hath many a hot heart-aching?
Have you counted the cost to stand by me,
In the battle I fight for man?
And shall your angel-love deify me,
Who stand in the world's dark ban?
O, a daring high soul you will need, dear love,
To brave the life-battle with me;
For your true heart may oftentimes bleed, dear love,
And your sweet eyes dim tearfully.
Joy burst on thy young spirit's waking;
Canst give its endearments to come, where
Life hath many a hot heart-aching?
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In the battle I fight for man?
And shall your angel-love deify me,
Who stand in the world's dark ban?
O, a daring high soul you will need, dear love,
To brave the life-battle with me;
For your true heart may oftentimes bleed, dear love,
And your sweet eyes dim tearfully.
Sweet! know you of gallant hearts perishing—
The fine spirits that dumbly bow?
For a little of fortune's cherishing,
They are breaking in agony, now.
And without the sunshine that life needeth,
Alas, Sweet! for me and for you,
How little the callous world heedeth,
For love like ours tender and true.
O! a daring high soul you will need, dear love,
To brave the life-battle with me;
For your true heart may oftentimes bleed, dear love,
And your sweet eyes dim tearfully.
The fine spirits that dumbly bow?
For a little of fortune's cherishing,
They are breaking in agony, now.
And without the sunshine that life needeth,
Alas, Sweet! for me and for you,
How little the callous world heedeth,
For love like ours tender and true.
O! a daring high soul you will need, dear love,
To brave the life-battle with me;
For your true heart may oftentimes bleed, dear love,
And your sweet eyes dim tearfully.
Well you've sworn! I have sworn; God hath bound us,
And that covenant the world shall not part;
I have flung my love's mantle around us,
And you live in each beat of my heart.
It may be our name in earth's story,
Shall endure when we are no more;
For truth lives as the stars burn in glory,
And the flowers bud on earth's green floor.
But a daring high soul you will need, dear love,
To brave the life-battle with me;
For your true heart may oftentimes bleed, dear love,
And your sweet eyes dim tearfully.
And that covenant the world shall not part;
I have flung my love's mantle around us,
And you live in each beat of my heart.
It may be our name in earth's story,
Shall endure when we are no more;
For truth lives as the stars burn in glory,
And the flowers bud on earth's green floor.
But a daring high soul you will need, dear love,
To brave the life-battle with me;
For your true heart may oftentimes bleed, dear love,
And your sweet eyes dim tearfully.
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