Here, Take My Heart

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1 id="id02961" style="margin-top: 6em">HERE, TAKE MY HEART.</h1> <p id="id02962" style="margin-top: 2em">Here, take my heart—'twill be safe in thy keeping,<br/> While I go wandering o'er land and o'er sea;<br/> Smiling or sorrowing, waking or sleeping,<br/> What need I care, so my heart is with thee?<br/></p> <p id="id02963">If in the race we are destined to run, love,<br/> They who have light hearts the happiest be,<br/> Then happier still must be they who have none, love.<br/> And that will be <i>my</i> case when mine is with thee.<br/></p> <p id="id02964">It matters not where I may now be a rover,<br/> I care not how many bright eyes I may see;<br/> Should Venus herself come and ask me to love her,<br/> I'd tell her I couldn't—my heart is with thee.<br/></p> <p id="id02965">And there let it lie, growing fonder and, fonder—<br/> For, even should Fortune turn truant to me,<br/> Why, let her go—I've a treasure beyond her,<br/> As long as my heart's out at interest With thee!<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />