Dare I say (I love you so)? (I love you so, that’s all I’ll say)
Ere I watch (your sweet love) go? (Your love is so sweet and tender, my love)
(Could I bear) the pain of that? (The pain does not compare, my love)
Enough! I cannot stand this (insanity). (If insanity is the price I’ll pay)
Perhaps it is not (love at all)? (What is love, if it is not what we own)
(Trickles) of passion, lust, or thrall? (Trickles of love-lust holing up in me)
In this (spell of heart-felt drawl) (a spell you put on me, my love)
Omniscient (twinges of hurt), hate, and fear (You lift my fears, my darling)
None of which (I long for here). (I long for you, I’ll wait right here)