Dearer than you can guess,
But 1s it dearer than her happiness?
My heart beats fast, my laggard feet move slow
Because I love her so.
But 1s it dearer than her happiness?
My heart beats fast, my laggard feet move slow
Because I love her so.
Chorus
Because I love her so, etc.,
Because I love her so, etc.,
Because I love her so
A broader love than narrow selfishness,
A higher and a deeper love I see,
Her love for me, her present happiness
Weigh these against her life's abiding good,
The welfare of her high sweet womanhood
Outweighs them both; with beating heart I go
To win her hate because I love her so.
A broader love than narrow selfishness,
A higher and a deeper love I see,
Her love for me, her present happiness
Weigh these against her life's abiding good,
The welfare of her high sweet womanhood
Outweighs them both; with beating heart I go
To win her hate because I love her so.
Chorus
Because I love her so, etc.,
Because I love her so, etc.,
Perhaps sometime, somewhere,
I shall see how I have been brave and strong,
I, who so strangely weak and faltering seem,
And sweet shall be the song
Of Love's sweet sacrifice, of Love's return
When from the records angels keep we learn—
To have been true and self-forgetful proved
Was better and sweeter than to have been loved.
I shall see how I have been brave and strong,
I, who so strangely weak and faltering seem,
And sweet shall be the song
Of Love's sweet sacrifice, of Love's return
When from the records angels keep we learn—
To have been true and self-forgetful proved
Was better and sweeter than to have been loved.
Chorus
Because I love her so, etc.,
Because I love her so, etc.,
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