Your sweet voice holds to music
As a spring rain tops the grass
I did not love for nothing
But for this song to last

Why, of every signal
Does silence loudest speak
I did not love for nothing
But to have one touch to keep

O keep my lover saintly
In this scheme of crooked sin
I did not love for nothing
But to wear the sorrow in

As his name lays soft in poems
So keep him near to me
I did not love for nothing
But for sweet eternity