Grand Haven Daily Tribune  June 14, 1904

If You Love Her, Tell Her So.

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(By David Fletcher Hunton.)

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Not one look of sweet assurance?

No caress before you go?

Husband!  In the days of courtship,

Did you ever leave her so?

Not one kiss of true affection?

Not one kind word ere you go?

Ere you led her to the alter,

Did you ever treat her so?

Then, you showed her marked attention,

In those happy years ago;

You were chivalrous and gallant,

When you were her courteous beau!

For the sake of her who loves you,

So much better than you know;

For the sake of home, and children,

If you love her, tell her so!

Do not let the press of business,

Stop love’s sweet springs in their flow;

Springs thus checked, are stilled forever—

If you love her, tell her so!

Tell her, ere that true heart sickens,

And her fond hopes fainter grow;

Ere love is requited elsewhere—

If you love her, tell her so!

Tell her often that you love her,

Only this she cares to know;

She would give the world to know it—

If you love her, tell her so!

Little tender acts o kindness,

Like the grains of wheat we sow;

Soon will bring love’s precious harvest—

If you love her, tell her so!

Love expressed, is like the sunshine

To the thirsty crops below;

And like rain upon the meadows—

If you love her, tell her so!

Grand Haven, Mich.

A. D. 1867