Oh, you are a treasure
for which I would give all I own.
Oh, how you are more to me
than the wealth of this entire universe
with its world upon world.
Oh, you are a living love song
that captivates my heart
and carries me away with its haunting melody.
Oh, how I love you sweet angel
and though I had a thousand tongues
I could never tell of this endless longing
that burns in my soul.
Oh, your face and form
has set my heart aflame
with a love that grows ever and ever deeper
and is more than my mortal frame can hold
and I seem to be torn asunder
ripping and tearing away flesh and bone.
Oh, how your deep mystic beauty carries me away
with your dark rolling eyes
that penetrates all the depths of my soul
and makes me forever yours. Oh, to bliss or woe!
Oh, your hair like dark black velvet silk
sends such an ache and pain into my soul
that says, " I must have your love or I shall die!"
Oh, I am jealous of your love!
Oh, how I am jealous for your love!!
My mind is filled with such wild imaginings
of all the things that can steal you away!
And fills my heart with such painful foreboding.
Oh, you are a love song written by God upon human flesh
and Oh, how you tempt and tantalize my heart
that is ever lost to you!
Though you ever think me a fool or an man insane.
Oh, then I am forever condemned an insane fool!!
As you tear and pluck at my heart
and I am laid waste
and become a man of shadows
that must forever live in the darkness of my heart
If you tear your heart from me.
If love there ever be.
Oh, I am run through and through as with a sword
and am slain and lie prostrate and dead.
Oh, how when you speak to me
or give your brief nod or consent
you fill me with such delight.
Oh, of you no angel can sing
for your charms are deeper and wider than the sea.
Oh, let me live in your garden of delight
as time spins in its swift flight
and we pass our endless days
upon eternities shore
and bind our hearts together forever more.