Read this Poem and keep it, and with your Heart confide,
Or place amongst your wandering thoughts
Where wasted Dreams reside.
Keep within a locket, to wear and think of me,
Or safe inside all Billet-Doux
For we could never be.
Read this Poem and keep it, to read in years ahead,
Within all lines a hopeless Love,
But still by absence fed.
Read this Poem and keep it, by Ribbons you’d often wear,
Through years my Love endures,
This truth by God I swear.