My Dear I beseech thine own gratitude. Parting, be it spoken Or be it a favorable token Or adieu by the by Who were thou once In a matter of deliberate thinking But the rose that wilts While the Gardener tends to his own roses. Be there no just cause By way of reckoning with My poorly based manner I ask your hand Love be it a thing of adversity Or diverse confusion To he who holds no compassion Hatred still holds not passion And while I cannot bring myself to love, Love premieres itself to me. How Heavens Gaze Upon star crossed Lovers And the tide holds true To a Voyager on a perfumed Sea Onwards his own own native shore Love is blind to ties that bind For you my dear I your lighthouse far And you my anchor bold That I ask your hand to hold