The Love That Rules The World

I love you in the morning,

     I love you all the noon;

I love you in the evening,

     I love you ‘neath the moon.

I love you when you’re absent,

     I love you when you’re near;

I love you when you’re naughty,

     I love you when you’re dear.

I love you, love you better,

     Than all the world, I do;

There’s nothing, nothing, nothing,

     I wouldn’t do for you.

I love you, noble creature,

     How much I cannot say;

I love you, love you, LOVE YOU,

     The writer of this lay.

March 22, 1896

Pub. Camb. Press,

July 25, ‘96