All the world is so sweet, dear
And matters so little to me --
You are the whole and the all, dear
The bride for eternity.
Life is so gray and so brief dear
And it is so hard to live --
Why should we neighbor with grief, dear?
Better to love and forgive.
E'en tho' I miss you today, dear
Miss you and pass like a breath --
Love is puissant in serving, dear
Far past the portals of death.