This is what i vow
She shall have my heart to keep
Sweetly will we stir and sleep
All the years as now
Swift the measured sands may run
Love like this is never done
She and I are welded one
This is what I vow
This is what I pray
Keep her by me tenderly
Keep her sweet in pride of me
Ever and a day
Keep me from the old distress
Let me for our happiness
Be the one to love the less
This is what I pray
This is what I know
Lovers' oaths are thin as rain
Love's a harbinger of pain
Would it were not so
Ever is my heart a-thirst
Ever is my love accurst
She is neither last nor first
This is what I know

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Writer(s): DOROTHY PARKER, SARA BIRGITTA JANGFELDT