REMEMBER LOVE

                                             
                                             

                        REMEMBER LOVE

            Thine rosy cheeks of country petal hue,
            Do warm the very core of my desire.
            In truth I am bound to take my leave of you.
            My life and sword are pledged to my King's hire.
            Ere long I am gone, my thoughts will remain,
            With my beloved, whose absence I must bear.
            If God wills and I am spared death and pain,
            With all haste shall I return to my care
            Of she with whom I plight my troth,
            And will live ere long and keep, both in trust.
            Mayhap fate, with offspring, will bless us both.
            Happiness will last till death, dust to dust.

            But if I die in loyalty to those above,
            I ask only that you remember love.

            ANTHONY BOWEN.