Why, my heart, do we love her so? <br />(Geraldine, Geraldine!) <br />Why does the great sea ebb and flow? - <br />Why does the round world spin? <br />Geraldine, Geraldine, <br />Bid me my life renew: <br />What is it worth unless I win, <br />Love--love and you? <br /> <br />Why, my heart, when we speak her name <br />(Geraldine, Geraldine!) <br />Throbs the word like a flinging flame? - <br />Why does the Spring begin? <br />Geraldine, Geraldine, <br />Bid me indeed to be: <br />Open your heart, and take us in, <br />Love--love and me.<br /><br />William Ernest Henley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/why-my-heart-do-we-love-her-so/
