Love to Time
“Nay,” laughed Love, “I love living,
No years may me undo!
I finding joy in giving,
Then shall I sup the rue
If I ask naught forever?
Go to, oh Time, go to!
“If I ask naught forever,
Naught, nothing in return,
There’s naught of all they brewing
Can make my heart to yearn!
Oh, Time, thou art amusing,
Thou hast so much to learn!
“Oh, Time, thou are amusing!
Oh, Time, it is to laugh!
Fill the goblet as thou wilt,
Let it be mine to quaff!
And o’er its brim forever
Love still shall look and laugh!
“And o’er its brim forever
I’ll look, and laughter, too,
At they gray locks shall stir me!
As many years as you
Shall tell, I’ll tell them with thee;
Come, mix me up the brew!
“Come, mix they strongest potion,
And let us have it done;
And I will drink it laughing,
Will quaff your strongest one!
Despite all brews, Love yet shall live
Till Time itself be done!”