Little lady of my heart ! <br />Just a little longer, <br />Love me: we will pass and part, <br />Ere this love grow stronger. <br /> <br />I have loved thee, Child! too well, <br />To do aught but leave thee : <br />Nay! my lips should never tell <br />Any tale, to grieve thee. <br />Little lady of my heart ! <br />Just a little longer, <br />I may love thee: we will part, <br />Ere my love grow stronger. <br /> <br />Soon thou leavest fairy-land; <br />Darker grow thy tresses; <br />Soon no more of hand in hand; <br />Soon no more caresses ! <br /> <br />Little lady of my heart ! <br />Just a little longer, <br />Be a child: then, we will part, <br />Ere this love grow stronger.<br /><br />Ernest Christopher Dowson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ad-domnulam-suam/
