This is what I vow
He 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
He and I are welded one
This is what I vow

This is what I pray
Keep him by me tenderly
Keep him 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
He is neither last nor first
This is what I know